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“Hey, lady. Purple sweatshirt. No, NEXT to the pink cap – yes, you. Step away from the abyss.”

Apr 29, 2010 | Pneumonia

Hi. I'm home, as of Tuesday night. Dorothy nailed it: there is no place like home. My bed, my shower. My husband, my boys. Hal's cooking. He made me soup Tuesday night. I hadn't had anything to eat with that much color or flavor in three weeks. Three...

Saratica Cheats Death Again

Apr 21, 2010 | Pneumonia

Dennis Cooper, editor of Key West the Newspaper, has generously offered to put this announcement in this week's paper; it will catch Sally's blog readers up as well: Key West’s recovering Realtor and Red Barn Theater regular Sally O’Boyle has reinvented...

Saratica Continues to Improve

Apr 18, 2010 | Health & Wellness, Pneumonia

Sally is still in the ICU at San Juan de Dios hospital in San Jose. She is much improved. She is spending ever longer periods of time conscious and disconnected from a ventilator. The IV antibiotic treatment is making progress against her pneumonia. She has no liver...

It Wasn’t Dengue

Apr 9, 2010 | Pneumonia

Saratica is in the intensive care unit of Clinica Biblica in San Jose. She has a particularly nasty form of pneumonia. She will be sedated for at least the next three days and maybe longer. I will put more information here as I have it. She and her family would...