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A quick Jeff update. Including the last update, Jeff has had 5 great days in a row. Today was no exception. He ate some of his Mom's pasta fagioli soup and some diced peaches. The best news yet...with some assistance, Jeff stood up for the first time today! Keep the positive thoughts...

Well we've finally got some good news to report. I got a text on Thursday from his wife saying that Jeff was having a great day, almost as good a day as he was having just before Christmas. I called her and she told me he had just had a good OT session, catching a ball that they were throwing...

Well, Jeff is once again back at Rehab. He went back to the hospital last week for some scheduled tests and he began vomiting while he was there. They readmitted him and checked him out and found that he had another urinary tract infection, along with the other infection he had been fighting...

Jeff is once again back at Rehab. They now believe one of his meds was causing the liver inflammation and elevated counts. They're adjusting his meds to try and get things back to normal. Apparently the gall stones are not causing any issues. Hopefully the med changes will get him back on...

Jeff's back at MGH again. He's been fighting another infection and today his liver and white blood cell counts were up so they transferred him back. He's got gall stones that are causing some issues with his gall bladder and they're trying to decide whether they're going to remove it or just...

Jeff is finally back to Spaulding, no thanks to Blue Cross. They decided to delay things again.

Thankfully, they don't think it was seizures at this point. His med levels are back in line and he should be transferred back to Spaulding today.

now we're talking

While I agree with PTN. Jeff's doctors have recently said , that judging from his progress thus far, they see no reason that he shouldn't make a full recovery.

A friend of ours asked me to forward this: -------------------------------------------------------------- update 12/19 We had an awsome visit with Jeff yesterday. When we arrived he was in the soloriam sitting up in his wheelchair watching the colts game and looking around at the...

I had an awesome visit with Jeff today. When I arrived he was sitting in a wheelchair and had just returned from Occupational Therapy. His therapist said he did a great job and that he had Speech Therapy at 1 and Occupational Therapy at 2:00 PM. He was awake and alert. I asked him how he was...

Update 12/8/2010 His wife called me this afternoon to report that Jeff's sarcasm muscle is fully functional. He had her laughing. She said to him today that she missed being able to really talk to him and she asked him if he missed talking to her. His response, "Sort of." This morning he...

Another email from Brian. Our brew club is on a pub crawl in Boston today and he went over beforehand to visit Jeff. Kicking myself now for missing the crawl... --------------------------------------------- I just hung out with the big man for an hour. He was sitting in a wheel chair when...

This is an email from CapeBrewing. I'm sure he'd be posting this here later, but I thought I'd spread the news now. I was over to see Jeff today and got lucky as I was able to sit in for two of Jeff's one hour therapy sessions. The first hour was speech therapy and he was being a bit of a...

Jeff is now at the rehab facility in Boston. The insurance company has been giving them a hard time and he's there on a two week trial. I won't get into this, it makes my blood boil. He really needs to step up to the plate and make some serious progress. He could an extra dose of prayers...

Update 11/26/2010 We made it up to see Jeff yesterday. He wasn't very responsive most of the time we were there. He did come around for 15 minutes or so. We had the Pat's game on and he watched TV most of the time, although he did look at me when I was talking to him. He was doing this...

A quick Jeff update. Just got word today that the folks taking care of Jeff feel that he is ready to move on to a full service rehab facility. He still needs insurance company approval. But it should happen in the next week or so. While there he'll receive more aggressive physical...

Update 11/10/2010 Jeff had a pretty good day today. They've been capping this trach tube and his oxygen levels have remained normal. The speech therapist would like to keep it capped all day and take the cap off at night. They want to give him every opportunity to talk. His doctors need to...

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Update: 11/4/2010 Jeff continues his slow but steady progress. He's gained movement in his other foot now. So that gives him movement in both hands and feet and movement in his left arm, wrist and elbow. He's been mouthing words a lot lately and to get him one step closer to talking, they...