Jerry Mead's Status

[Bucko]

Jerry Mead has been in Carson Tahoe Hospital fighting for his life the past several days. On top of a recurrent illness, he developed severe pneumonia. The doctors told Sandra more than a week ago that he would not last 48 hours. Well, the old buzzard proved hard to kill, because he fooled them. The pneumonia has stabilized.

Then to add insult to injury, his heart failure significantly worsened. He underwent testing which shows his artificial valve to be leaking. They thought that they may have to do surgery, with dismal prospects. They tried a medicine called an ACE inhibitor to see if it would help the heart failure -- it worked! Now the docs are not talking about how long he has left to live, rather when he can go home, saying he will look back at this in six months and realize just how sick he was.

Sandra says he has been very depressed over all of the health problems, understandibly so. I think that if all of "Jerry's Kids" will send him a get well card, it will help him get back on track, doing what he does best, bitching about government B.S. I know it will be appreciated. Thanks,

Jerry Mead
P.O. Box 1598
Carson City, NV 89702

Bucko

P.S. Sandra says no flowers please......