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Monday, March 18, 2002
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Comstock
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to visit him, he suffered a
seizure.
His mother came early that
Wednesday morning to visit him
in the ICU room doctors had
moved him to. Doctors told Dixie
Comstock they were not sure
why her son was having seizures,
but they placed him on an anti
seizure medication that he will be
required to take for two years.
For days, Comstock was on
pancreatitis medication that left
him unable to eat, and he was
fed through his I.V. He was
slowly put back on solid foods
before his release.
Back home for an abbreviated
spring break, Comstock, still
nervous about the kidney stone
that had yet to be passed, waited
at his doctor’s office to have his
prosthetic leg refitted.
“Basically, it just kind of
sucks,” Comstock said, talking
on his mother’s cell phone
Friday from the doctor's office.
"Three seizures will mess you
up completely.”
What is worse, Comstock
said, is that he missed two
exams the week before spring
break, adding more to his aca
demic load.
Comstock’s recent hospital
stay was another worry in the
mind of his mother. On the two-
year anniversary of Bonfire’s
collapse last November, with
one son finally back in school
and rehabilitating, Dixie
Edwards again received a phone
call every' mother dreads: her
other son, Chris, had been in a
serious motorcycle accident in
Pensacola, Fla.
This bridge we,
too, will cross.
— Dixie Edwards
John Comstock’s mother
Chris, a Naval Academy mid
shipman who would have earned
his pilot’s wings in January, was
hospitalized for months after the
near-fatal crash. With three inches
of the bone in Chris' left leg shat
tered, the boys’ mother faced the
possibility of having both her sons
lose legs.
Bui doctors are going to use a
method normally reserved for
people who need to lengthen
one or both legs: they will grow
Chris’ leg, centimeter by cen
timeter, by inserting pins into
the existing bone in his leg as
part of a wire frame and slow ly
stretching the leg. The proce
dure will leave John’s brother in
constant pain, as his bone grows
three or four centimeters, heals
and is then stretched again.
Dixie said she hoped it would
work.
"This bridge we, too. will
cross,” she said.
Chris was also home for
spring break, part of a bitter
sweet family reunion. Dixie said
she is thankful she had only one
more child, a 14-year-old girl
who she said is just beginning to
give her trouble.
But on the other hand, the
brothers are two of a kind.
"We’re two crippled brothers
going places.” John said, telling
of his brother struggling on
crutches.
Dixie, with a laugh, admitted
she had had it with the trouble
her two sons had given her.
“But what else is different
about parenthood?” she said.
“I’m just happy to have these
two boys back.”
She said it was gcxxl to see
her boys together again.
“Chris is paddling around,
it’s so funny to see these two.”
the tired mother said from the
waiting room in the doctor’s
office. “They both have learned
more of an appreciation of life.”
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