[Oe List ...] Update on Jack Gilles

[frank bremner]

Thinking and praying for you
 
Best wishes
 
Frank Bremner
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 07:35:40 -0400
From: hfgreenenc at gmail.com
To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Update on Jack Gilles

Many heartfelt prayers for Jack and Judy.
Zoe, thanks for the photo.
Herman

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Gordon Harper <gharper1 at mindspring.com> wrote:


  
    
  
  
    Colleagues --

      

      With Jack's permission, I'm sharing this news with you about his
      current health situation.  

      

      As some of you may know, Jack has had several quite painful gall
      bladder attacks over the past few months.   They've mostly
      occurred while in Litibu and mercifully been of fairly short
      duration.  He's elected on those occasions not to take the surgery
      route but to treat the stones medically, and this has seemed
      sufficient. 

      

      Jack and Judy have been in the States these past three weeks or
      so, preparing to attend the Archive Team's Fall Sojourn in
      Chicago.  Jack had the most severe of these attacks while here--as
      it happens, while staying with David and Margaret Scott in
      Kalispell, MT.  He has basically been wiped out, this time for
      several days, with major pain and unable to sleep.  He's now been
      diagnosed once again with stones, and this time an inflamed
      pancreas and an irregular heartbeat.  

      

      Thankfully, I don't think the Gilleses could have picked a better
      place for this to happen.  The Scotts are providing incredible
      care for both of them and ensuring that Jack has access to fine
      medical resources.  Further tests are scheduled for this week, and
      Jack has pretty much decided this time to go for gall bladder
      surgery if the doctors give him the nod.

      

      Jack and Judy won't be joining the Archive Team in Chicago this
      weekend for the start of the Fall Sojourn.  Depending on how
      things go, (the eternal optimist) he's holding open the
      possibility they might make it the second week.  Given how much
      Jack is in communication with so many of us, he wants to let
      everyone know the current situation, and, if any of you were
      wondering, why you haven't heard from him lately.

      

    Regardless
        of the medical evaluation, those of you who know Jack know that
        when he can't bring himself to get on the Internet himself, he
        clearly can't be in the best shape.  I know he'd
      appreciate any of our prayers or emails wishing him improved
      health.   He was feeling somewhat better this evening when I
      talked to him, having been able to get some sleep today for a
      change.  He's scheduled for further tests related to those
      irregular heart rhythms tomorrow, with discussion of the surgery
      depending on how they turn out.  

      

      More as we learn more --

      

      Gordon  

    

    

    

    

    

  


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