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Update on Seymour Papert as of January 21, 2008

Seymour has been improving steadily since his return home on July 25th after eight months of hospitalization. During these months his recovery from his brain injuries was complicated by his contracting life threatening septicemia in March 2007 which attacked a valve in his heart, necessitating an emergency heart operation.

He was released from the hospital on May 10 and spent nine long weeks in a rehabilitation clinic. Since his return home he has been under 24 hour care by devoted care givers and is undergoing regular physical and speech therapy. All this coupled with his indomitable spirit and strength has accomplished miracles. He looks wonderful, is in good physical health and is back to his normal weight. He walks and climbs stairs almost unaided now recognizes and communicates with everyone with his wonderful sense of humor. Intently studies newspapers and books, enjoys watching television, plays chess, and beats almost everyone in checkers and dominoes. He is slowly getting back to the computer, enjoys watching videos of his lectures and seminars and is beginning to look at notes from his unfinished book. His thinking is clear but we are still facing some complicated speech problems and anticipate many more months of work will be necessary before we can know how completely these will be cleared up. Doctors say that eventual recovery from such serious brain injuries takes one to two full years and judge that because of the complications he suffered this time must be counted from May 2007. He will celebrate his 80th birthday on February 29 of this year and the good news is that doctors say he has the constitution of someone ten years younger. So we must all have patience, rejoice in how far he has come and keep the faith that he will be able once again to continue his work to benefit the minds and lives of the children of the world.

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