Thursday, January 30, 2025

Kirschen in Hospital

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Sali, the LSW here, Yaakov had a stroke almost 2 weeks ago. His speech and left side were affected. He is very weak and can barely move his left arm, hand and leg. His speech is very slow and mumbled and he is winded. His brain is ok. He was in the hospital for 5 days and now is in a rehabilitation facility here in Kfar Saba where we live. But he is very strong willed and very dedicated to his life's work of Dry Bones. Yesterday, he was actually able to write and draw a cartoon, and I am trying to put up the blog posting. He will probably be there for a month or a bit more. I have lent him my laptop computer and I am trying to use his big computer instead. We spent 2 days trying to put photoshop on my laptop and finally succeeded. He writes and sketches his cartoon on a piece of paper and then scans it into photoshop and manipulates it and colors it etc. We spent 4 hours doing that in photoshop, which I also do not really know how to use. Also, the interface uses tiny tiny typeface which is really hard for us old people to see and read. We used his camera for a scanner. Yaakov is amazing. He can barely move, or talk, but is doing the cartoon, He needs to do it for his brain therapy and therapy for his manual dexterity. And it gives him a very good incentive to keep going. It is such a weird talent. But he has been doing it almost daily since January 1973. The photoshop part is still hard, but getting better. He has still his amazing ability to think up and write and draw the cartoon, but the rest is super hard. He is very very weak and almost cannot move. He is a big guy, and it takes 2 strong men to get him from the bed to the wheelchair and back. I stayed overnight at the hospital with him, and I still have not recovered from the lack of sleep as I am old too. He turns 87 in a few weeks and I am 78. You are welcome to pray for him, if you do that sort of thing, his mother's name was Molly. I am going to try to buy him a bit larger laptop and and maybe a portable scanner. Here is the cartoon that he did 2 yesterday. In case you might want to contribute, here are the links. To support DRY BONES directly (through PayPal or your Credit Card, tiny.cc/3oncvz Or, if you need U.S. tax deductible, DONATE $50 or MORE (U.S. Tax DEDUCTIBLE) https://tinyurl.com/5cc33zd much love and gratatude, Sali, the LSW.

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