That's great news! Please say hello and best wishes from up Thunder Road
for me.
-Mark B.

At 11:29 PM 2/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I wrote exactly ONE WEEK ago, about Jeff's condition:
>
>RF>  No news is Good News.
>
>after I had seen Jeff the day before, after he had just been moved
>out of the ICU into a regular room;  and the day before that when
>I saw him at the ICU.  The situation looked REALLY grim.
>
>That's why I consider the news I got from Richard (Jeff's boss),
>not too long ago that I didn't read until now, nothing short of
>a MAJOR miracle, in progress!
>
>Richard said Jeff was able to sit up for a short while and actually
>ate regular food TODAY, for the first time since he entered the
>hospital emergency room on January 1!  Richard went on to say
>
> >  He cannot talk due the ventilator and is still very weak.
> >  The bad news is that he will need a liver transplant to
> >  really recover.  The good news is it looks like he will be
> >  able to get strong enough to be able to receive a transplant.
>
>Richard also said,
>
> >  We will be taking him an AlphaSmart keyboard and with it he will
> >  be able to communicate more easily.
>
>
>I can't wait to see Jeff's first post in Scuba-SE this year!  :-)
>Actually, I don't even know what an AlphaSmart keyboard is, but I'll
>be visiting Jeff tomorrow for sure, since I'll be off this weekend
>(again <G> to Chicagah) and won't be back till next Tuesday.
>
>If any of you catch this news in time and have something for me to
>relay to Jeff (in print or by voice), do so publicly (Scuba-SE) OR
>email me privately (to [log in to unmask] -- DON'T use the Yahoo
>address for email.  I seldom ever use it and don't use it even for
>this posting :-))
>
>I'll beat Viv to saying, "Hallelujah!" this time.   :-)
>
>-- Bob.