[Steppes] Wormy?

[Don and Monica]

I just recieved some news. It's not much but it is something to hold on to.

>From Rosalia :

I just wanted to give everyone an update on how Wormy is doing.

There is small improvement.  He is now on less medication and his is
breathing a bit on his own.
His parents are holding up and have a room at the hospital.  Eleanor is
taking care of the parents.

There is still no visitation allowed.

I will continue to post updates as they come available.  Keep up the good
work everyone - every prayer helps.

Love,
Rosalia di Bellavita

>From Darius

The card for Wormy we had at Defender will be at Elfsea Moot tonight. As
soon as he is allowed cards and such we will get it to him, and post the
address he can recieve them at. For now just continue to keep him in our
thoughts and prayers, and let a bell ring for our Jester. (if you don't have
one pick up one from me tonight at moot I have a box of small bells that
will be out with the card.)

With Hope
Darius of the Bells
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chiara" <chiara at io.com>
To: "Barony of Steppes - SCA, Inc." <steppes at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Wormy?


> Actually, his condition was given to us over a week ago on the apprentice
> list and because of the policy on that list about forwarding private
emails
> we could not really forward that to any other list without permission. No
> one thought to forward it to the Steppes list but I believe it was
forwarded
> to the Elfsea list.
>
> "Wormy was born prematurely, and his aortic valve was malformed. Instead
of
> having 3 parts to it, it only has 2, and was therefore weak to begin with.
> ..... They have done multiple EKG's and at least one Ultrasound Doppler
> study, which looks at blood flow. " There was additional damage to his
aorta
> and they had to graft one for the surgery that just took place.
>
> The bacteria Wormy has in his blood is Streptococcus bovine, the suspect
> item producing the bacteria was a tooth that was extracted while in the
> hospital.
>
> The contact person with the hospital directly is "Beth Wolff"
> <wolffsrun at sbcglobal.net>. I believe that she is working with a few others
> around to keep us informed so just be patient for now and they will keep
us
> up to date. :)
>
> Keep praying, ring bells, and challenge him at scrabble when he gets out
of
> ICU. :)
>
> Chiara