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Dave Cockrum Update

From Ken Gale:

Dave Cockrum, creator and artist of the New X-Men (Storm and Nightcrawler’s creator) has been taken out of the extended care section of the V.A. hospital and put back in the medical center part due to the return of his pneumonia, but is recovering. It's not as bad a bout as what put him in the hospital in the first place, but it is still a turn for the worse. And they were just talking about maybe sending him home! He and Paty still think he'll be home in time to get to the Atlanta Con in mid-April.

Visitors and cards can be sent to:

Dave Cockrum
Bronx Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Floor 7C, Room 1D
130 W. Kingsbridge Road
Bronx, NY 10468

Visiting hours are 10 AM to 8 PM.

Now that I appear to finally be coming out of my own minor winter health-funk, I'm hoping to see Dave this weekend, in between apartment-hunting. It doesn't surprise me, given Ken's and Mercy's e-mails about his treatment whilst in the Extended Care section (I mean, unattended in the hallway for hours on end?), that Dave's contracted pneumonia again; let's hope that when and if he goes back to EC he's not put back in the same room with that Screamer...