Just Jack: Update

Some concerned followers have been asking me how Jack is doing. Apparently, I have left them on the edge of their chairs, desperately wanting news. Well, I am happy to say that he has pulled through. He was in the hospital for about two weeks, at which point it was deemed appropriate for him to move on to a re-hab center. He lost a lot of weight and even more muscle strength while in the hospital, so now his main priority is rebuilding that muscle to get back to pre-hospital-stay levels.

While he was in the hospital, the staff somehow lost his teeth. He doesn't have any of his own teeth anymore (I guess that's what we get to look forward to) so both upper and lower dentures are gone. This has obviously made eating and speaking difficult. Food has always been something he adores, so to eat all his meals mushed up has been a struggle for him. He tells me that most of the time he doesn't even know what he is eating, he has to look at the sheet to see what the menu consists of. We are working on getting him a new set of choppers, which will take a few weeks. In the mean time, he goes to physical therapy every day and has the goal of going home in sight.

If I neglect to call him every few days, he calls. The calls are all pretty similar, after all, when you are sitting in bed, in a shared room, there's not a whole lot of interesting things to talk about. But he tells me that he misses hearing my voice, that he loves me, that he appreciates all that I do for him, etc. So, life goes on, one day at a time.