- At June 09, 2009
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Pneumonia
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This is Glenn. Think good thoughts for Jeannine; she was admitted to the hospital tonight with pneumonia. She is stabile now and resting.
Update: Hey guys! It’s Jeannine, finally healthy enough to be sending an update from the patchy hospital wireless, but wanted to say thank you for all the well-wishes and let you know I’m still in the hospital, waiting to hear from doctors on exactly what’s up with the pneumonia and hoping I can go home soon! I really appreciate your good thoughts and prayers. I finally got a few hours of sleep last night, the first I’ve had since I caught pneumonia, so I am very grateful. On the poetry side, I’m trying to write a poem involving the words sleep deprivation, supersoldier, and infiltrants. (They did a chest CTscan looking for “infiltrants.” I was delighted to learn a new interesting medical term…though I guess I hope I don’t have any of them, since they are cells or body fluids that have passed into a tissue or body cavity.)

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.


