I am back after 14 days. Unfortunely my brother had a heart attack, so I went out of state to see him. He was riding his bicycle and went unconscious and fell to the sidewalk along a busy street, and thank God did not fall into the highway. It was just getting dark. Someone saw him fall and called 911, but no one stopped and did CPR. The paramedics estimate my brother was dead for 7-9 minutes. His heart was in fibrillation (heart is fluttering but not pumping) and they shocked him to get it back in rhythm and rushed him to the hospital. After a brain scan they decided to put him in cryostatic sleep (the machine where they take your blood out cool it down a bit and put it back in your veins). Of course they use a respirator and feeding tube and put him in critical care where no family could see him. After 3 days of this treatment they slowly warmed him up. This high tech procedure is meant to reduce further swelling on the brain. When they took the sedatives off he was unresponsive for two days. Our hearts fell. Because he had a directive (no feeding tubes etc) they took him to pallative care to die. However on the next day (6 days after the heart attack) he came around and was mumbling and thrashing. The doctor was amazed and plugged the IV back in. That very day he was able to swallow and starting drinking juice. On the 8th day he started talking clearly and had really good long term memory, but the short term memory was confused. They moved him to the heart floor to evaluate his heart. Apparently the heart attack was minor with little heart damage but was enough to throw the heart out of rhythm. They did put a stint in one artery. The brain trauma was the worst, due to lack of oxygen. On day 11 he was up out of bed walking around. On day 12 he had a pacemaker/defibrillator installed. On day 14 he was released from the hospital and is now in an intensive weeklong speech and physical therapy. He is expected to make nearly a full recovery for all practical purposes. He short term memory is improving daily. It is a miracle pure and simple. Praise God.
I will report on the markets by this weekend. Just wanted you to know.
- the Fact of having somebody NEW in place -- did more to turn the Markets around than any other event. 
