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tl;dr: it looks like things will be all right

I apparently neglected to post about this back in June, so: I got a call yesterday with the good news that Scraps (aka Soren de Selby aka Tom Weber Jr) has been released from the hospital and moved into a group home in Lynwood, near enough to his parents' home that they can visit.

Scraps was hospitalized in June. I don't think he actually needed three months' of inpatient care. Rather, it was decided (I don't know by whom, possibly some combination of him, his doctors, and his family of origin) that he shouldn't go back to the place in Everett where he'd been living with his friend Victor. That had stopped working, to the extent that it ever worked well--they were living hours outside Seattle by bus, and thus far from Scraps' family or other friends, and I gather that Victor became less able to give Scraps emotional support.) So, part of what they were doing with the time, along with medical help, was arranging somewhere else for him to live.

coyotegoth and other friends of Scraps, please spread the word as seems appropriate that he is doing okay, and living in Lynwood.

Latest word is that he has not had another stroke. It was a seizure, so they are giving him anti-seizure meds, keeping him in the hospital for a couple of days, and waiting for a neurologist to look at and evaluate CAT scans. The seizure is likely to have been produced by artifacts of the stroke.

He has speech, though he is unhappy at being in the hospital—this is an entirely normal and healthy reaction to being in a hospital unexpectedly. Velma also reports him being somewhat drugged-drowsy from the seizure meds; this is, unfortunately, also normal, especially for the high dose that I infer the doctors have given Soren.

TNH just posted on Making Light that baldanders may be having another stroke. And she wanted the word spread, so I am.

We wait, and hope. I will update as I know more.

ETA: 7:52: They’re at New York Methodist Hospital.

NY Methodist is good; that's where Soren was last year.

ETA 9:27 pm: Elise reports "Update: just heard he's lucid and bitching mightily about wanting to go home. This is a VERY good sign, I am told. Also, Velma says everybody should get some sleep."