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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Go Jet Go!

Ah yes, another perfectly normal day for most of us. Get up, feed the dog, take the bus/bike/family wagon to work, think about how your blood is reoxygenated in your lungs and then circulated through your body... OK, maybe you aren't thinking about that today but I was. You see, this speedy little guy cruising the pimped out Salsa ride-n-scoot is Jet Feirn, son of Salsa Superteamer Fast Freddy Feirn.

Jet had open heart surgery yesterday to patch up his ticker. He was born with a condition called Tetralogy of Fallot. In terms even I can understand, he has four problems with his little heart including a hole between the left and right ventricle. Blood enters his heart but bypasses the lungs, re-entering his circulatory system blue without being reoxygenated. You can read about his story here at the Caring Bridge site. Caring Bridge is a non-profit organization providing free web sites for families to post and share news with far away loved ones during major life events such as medical emergencies. News from the Feirn household is that he's doing fine and feeling strong and ornery already. Exactly what we would expect from a future X-Games champ. He'll probably be in the hospital for a week or so terrorizing the nursing staff and wanting to do speed laps in the wheelchairs. We wish the best to Jet, Fred, and Kerry.

-Pierce

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