Jessica Lynch To Be Home Soon

Saturday, July 12, 2003

The Associated Press

The rescue, videotaped by troops, made an American hero out of the petite blonde from rural West Virginia who joined the Army to get an education and become a teacher.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- AP
Former POW Jessica Lynch is expected to be out of the hospital and back home in West Virginia by the end of the month, a family spokesman said Friday.

Family spokesman Randy Coleman said doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., said Lynch could be released in two weeks.

Doctors still need to do some tests as part of the discharge process before a release date is set, but Lynch is progressing, hospital spokeswoman Beverly Chidel said.

"Early on, there was a lot of pain," Chidel said. "Now she's looking better, she's upbeat and she's very talkative. She participates with her treatments and wants to do more."
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Dan