Brendan Kehoe hospitalized :(, and Update (fwd)

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>From jpolly at nysernet.ORG Mon Jan  3 12:09:52 1994
 
 
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>From: Stanton McCandlish <mech at eff.org>
>Subject: Brendan Kehoe hospitalized  :(
>To: eff-talk at eff.org
>Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 11:04:23 -0500 (EST)
>Cc: thesegroups at tic.com, eff-austin at tic.com
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>[forwarding this from Dave Farber on behalf of everyone here at EFF. -mech]
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>For those of you who know Brendan Kehoe , the author of the "Zen and
>the Art of the Internet", he was very seriously hurt in an auto accident on
>Friday in Newtown, PA, and was helicoptered to the University of Pennsylvania
>Hospital Trauma Center where he is in the Neuological Trauma Center. He is
>at best holding his own and the prognosis is still very touch and go. Both
>his mother and brother are at Penn and are currently at the Penn Towers (215)
>387-8333 rm 1908. They plan to move tomorrow and we will keep anyone who
>requests informed.
>
>We wish him the best
>
>Dave and GG
>farber at central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber, EFF Board)
>
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>Stanton McCandlish * mech at eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 18:05:19 +0000

From: Windy <pgw at unr.edu>
To: eng at equinox.unr.edu
Subject: Latest ...
 
The news has been streaming in all day, but this is the "best" news
so far ...
 
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 17:03:06 -0800 (PST)

From: Glee Harrah Cady <glee at netcom.com>
Subject: Latest as of 4 pm (unofficial report ;-) ) (fwd)
To: Glee Willis <willis at shadow>
 
 
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 16:59:36 -0800

From: Pat McGregor <pat at cygnus.com>
To: glee at netcom.com, gelinas at lloyd.com, emv at msen.com, osm at msen.com,
    scs at msen.com, ellen.hoffman at um.cc.umich.edu, brown at eff.org
Subject: Latest as of 4 pm (unofficial report ;-) )
 
Jeffrey Osier called and said that he and Brendan's family visited 
several times today. Brendan is semi-conscious most of the time rather
than in a coma. he is recognizing voices, music, and faces, altho the
surgery (he was operated on 3 times to relieve pressure on the brain)
has left him with speech recognition problems (and apparently the trauma
to the head was largely in the speech and language part of his brain).
 
he's restless and irritable, all of which my friends in nursing say are
good signs. And, as one of them said, "The fact that his pelvis broke
and absorbed the shock, preventing internal injuries, means his body
was working the way it's supposed to."
 
They're moving him from the ICU to a regular room sometime tonight or
early tomorrow. 
 
Doctors say  that in a few weeks they can more fully assess how much 
brain damage has been done, both because of the swelling of the brain and
from the car accident itself. They can start setting the bones in his
face (almost every bone in the face was broken, as well as his pelvis)
as soon as the swelling goes down. 
 
Current plans are to move him to Boston later to begin rehab therapy 
and extensive plastic surgery.
 
Altho Cygnus plans to continue him on salary and he luckily had signed up
for health insurance, there will be medical expenses. We're looking at the
best way to set up such a fund in the next day or so.
 
As soon as I know more, I'll let you know!
 
  p
 
 
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