He Survived A Flesh Eating Disease. He Is Now Confined To A St. John S Hospital Waiting To Return Home
Jody Short was ankle-deep in snow in February, shovel in hand, when searing pain shot through his left leg. “I almost passed out from the pain,” Short recalled recently, speaking quietly from the recreation room of the Miller Center in St. John’s, where he has been sidelined for three months. Short ended up in the hospital, rushed into surgery to have an aortic dissection—a tear in his main artery and the start of a nightmare series of medical problems that would eventually leave him unable to walk or return home....