Hi,
If his boyfriend called me, I'm not responsible for keeping the info secret. I have no legal obligation either way but I do feel a need to protect him.

My work girl friend and I got to see him from a second from the corridor. Then his grand neice went out in the waiting room to talk to us. He's out of the coma but still not able to do all his breathing on his own. He has tried to communicate but they can't understand him and they can't read his handwriting.

Apparently, the docs are not saying for sure that he did this on purpose. According to them, it could have been accidental because of the pain pills he was taking for his back.

Anyway, we are going to tell work that he is getting better and that is it.

They won't believe us anyway. He's looked very sick for a long time because of his weight loss and general depressed/anxious demeanor -- even before he went out on disabilty.

People at work have been imagining all kinds of wild weird things wrong with him. They are stupid (and maybe afraid a little).

We lost two colleague this month.
They think that students couldn't handle losing another teacher. I think that students are strong.

mari