I had an incredibly busy, satisfying and interesting day.. (Good code written for work, some writing for work, visit to homers for project, visit to bens for project, bad virus vanquished from computer) but all of it was eclipsed by one simple phone call. I got a note yesterday from my friend Bruce that our buddy Jim who’d been injured in a car accident in October.. Was now able to talk on the phone.
Readers of this blog will remember that jim was in a coma fro several weeks… Then.. When he woke up, was not able to talk. For a while he was only able to count, then he was able to sing.. Hn he was able to give one word answers to questions. I don’t know what i was expecting when i called today.. But what i got was the old jim.. He said he was bored hanging out in the hospital and was eager to get back to work. He had 100 percent of his memory and his sense of humor. It was amazing… Simply amazing.. I never thought id be speaking to the real jim again.. And this was the real jim… I almost cried…
We talked for about a half an hour. he talked about his family and about the food there.. he had no recollection of the last 43 months He was very bummed that he’d missed that time with his family… He told me that he was tired of hearing people respond to that with ‘at least your alive’. I had to stop and think about that.. I really is a loss. And as such, . Its something you have to mourn… Nothing can short cut that. People telling you not to mourn a loss like that is hard to hear.. We all have to honor that…
That said…. Omg…. He’s back, he’s back… Im soooooo glad he’s back !

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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