Thanks for your Help Allan is alive and kicking

Allan thanks you all for posting on the site and wishing him well.

I thank you as well for any of you that posted on the site as well. We would do the same for you.

Thanks
Brent
http://www.eastcoastsurfer.com/

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Hello Everyone,
John here again, Allan's friend and web guy.
First off, I want to thank all of you who posted well-wishes for Allan last week. You really blew his mind, and I think the positive messages you sent his way are really helping his recovery.
Yes, that's right: I said recovery. I just spoke with Allan a few minutes ago, and he is home from the hospital, healing from a 2-week ordeal that came very, very close to claiming his life. He asked me to update you all with this information, and said he would be in touch with all the gory details as soon as he's able to write. Right now he's very weak and still a bit addled by the pain meds they've had him on, so he's unable to really focus enough to write a full update for you. So I'll give you the basics, as per his request:
Allan was rushed to the ER in Southhampton early on July 2nd, where he underwent immediate emergency surgery for a perforated ulcer. The perforated ulcer had caused severe infected Peritonitis, a life-threatening condition caused by the leaking of stomach contents into the abdominal cavity. Peritonitis brings with it a slew of other problems if left to go too long -- if you want to look into it, check out the Wikipedia page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritonitis. It appears that Allan may have been experiencing symptoms for quite some time, blaming his Lyme disease instead, so the condition was very serious because it had gone untreated for far too long.
Then he caught Pneumonia in the hospital. To fight the pneumonia, the doctors basically induced a coma by sedating him and intubating him (breathing tube, not the kind of tube he's used to). He was unconscious for several days.
He beat the odds, so far. According to Wikipedia:
If properly treated, typical cases of surgically correctable peritonitis (e.g. perforated peptic ulcer, appendicitis, and diverticulitis) have a mortality rate of about <10% href="http://www.banditobooks.com/guestbook.php">www.banditobooks.com/guestbook.php .
Thanks again to all of you for your concern and support.
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John BenedettiBandito Books