Hello All

After my 30 day vacation in Bromenn Hospital and the last 3 months of recovering it seems time to thank so many people for the kind wishes, prayers, cards and for supporting Cindy and myself. I have no memory of the events or even driving home so all that I know is I went to work on the 23rd of May and woke up June 22 in Bromenn Medical Center. I had the easy job (coma) and Cindy had the tough one (watching and waiting).

This experience changes you in many ways, I no longer smoke and after a life time of migraine headaches I have not had any type of headache since reawakening, my cholesterol had been near 300 and now is 177, my heart beats at 68 bpm, before over a hundred. I lost a lot of weight that was a good thing but the method I would not recommend.

I find you have good days and bad which seem to happen with no rhyme or reason. Getting well is a slow process my stamina is slowly getting better weekly. My muscle mass is starting to recover and my strength is returning. Slowly getting used to all the new skin on my body, I had an allergic reaction to one of the drugs they gave me and acquired TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis) lost most of the skin on my body, like a second degree burn. TEN took weeks to get over and was very painful. So now I have baby skin and the nurses have to be careful doing blood test in fact they use a baby needles on me.

Enough of the nitty-gritty, I am feeling fine and there is not enough words of thanks for the blessings I have received from family, friends and my Pastor. I will be grateful for the rest of my life and will try to pass it on.I will end with a little humor: As I was coming out of coma Cindy told me it was important to let them know I was still in there or I might be sent to long term care center. I came up with the plan, what could prove that I was all there but a little humor: I told my day nurse, who was from Hatti ,that I had figured out what had happened to me “what is that Mr. Lee”? I have died and come back because the Cubs are in first place. I could hear the games in another cubicle or at nurses station in ICU, the nurse looks at me and says “so you think you’re a baby bear?” I had to find the one person in Bloomington /Normal who never heard of the Cubs or Cardinals. Luckily, when I told the Dr. the story he was a Cub fan and I got to come home.

With warmest regards
Tim