[TheForge] OT: John/Johan is in the hospital...

[Jerry Frost]

Jerod:

Thanks for the update and it's good to hear they're getting things under 
control. We won't let him off the list till he's eating flowers again.

I appreciate your sense of humor, it's probably the best way of handling 
stress I know of, it's how I do it and I have practice. Some folk don't 
understand that trying to Lighten the mood isn't the same thing as taking it 
lightly. With exceptions of course, I bet you consider those folk as fair 
marks. Doctors do such GREAT spit takes! <evil grin>

All the best from the FAR north west.
Frostig Den Heldig.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Husvar" <jhusvar at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [TheForge] OT: John/Johan is in the hospital...


> Good morning,
>
> I'm not sure who has and has not heard, so I am sending this out broadly. 
> I
> am Jerod, John's son, and he asked me to let folks know that he is in the
> hospital due to some complications with his chemotherapy.  It seems that 
> the
> therapy is so aggressive that it dropped his white blood cell count down 
> to
> nothing (-0.7) on Wednesday, which allowed an opportunistic little group 
> of
> staph bugs to run rampant in his body...  The result of which was a rapid
> trip to Robinson Memorial Hospital's Emergency Room, accompanied by two 
> fine
> gentleman from Rootstown Fire Department in their shiny new ambulance.
> After 5 hours in the Emergency Room his admission to the hospital and
> stabilization was complete.  Today being Friday, the work of the medical
> staff appears to be working well, and I just got off the phone with him 
> and
> he asked me to let everyone know how he's doing...
>
> Yeah, he ain't dead, which makes those of us in the family very happy, and
> saves on air fresheners.  Talking to him this morning he sounded almost 
> like
> his old self, and is in good spirits and annoyed that he doesn't have
> internet access.
>
> For those who'd like to call he can be reached direct-dial at 
> 330-297-8256.
> For those wishing to send flowers... What the hell are you thinking?  He
> stopped eating those things after Pennsic 26...  Seriously, calls are
> probably best, he'll likely be out of there before anything mailed got to
> him.
>
> Please don't take my levity as a lack of seriousness...  It's been a
> stressful couple days and it's nice to write a positive mailing to all of 
> my
> dad's compadres, rather than something a lot less so.  Please keep him in 
> in
> your
> thoughts/prayers/meditations/whateverPCthingyourreligionorlackthereofdoes.
> It's appreciated, and it helps.
>
> Jerod Husvar
> For John
>