Where you stand depends on what you watch

St. Petersburg Times ^ | April 4, 2003 | SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I heard the list of her injuries from one of her doctors reporting on Fox yesterday morning.

Re the tobacco - I was agast.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Prognosis for Former POW Encouraging*** LANDSTUHL, Germany - Jessica Lynch has a new pair of eyeglasses and a close friend by her bedside. She's also made her first order from the hospital kitchen: turkey, apple sauce and steamed carrots. America's best-known POW was getting VIP treatment Friday at the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, but officials still aren't releasing many details of her ordeal or the circumstances of her injuries: a head wound and fractures in her right arm, both legs, her right foot and ankle, and an injury to her spine.

She had a back operation Thursday and surgery for other broken bones Friday, said the commander of the hospital, Col. David Rubenstein. He said was not shot or stabbed. But Dan Little, a cousin who held a news conference Friday night in West Virginia, said Lynch's mother, Deadra Lynch, had talked with her doctors and they had determined that the soldier had been shot. He said they found two entry and exit wounds "consistent with low-velocity, small-caliber rounds." They also found shrapnel, Little said. Rods and pins had been placed in her arms and legs, and she had responded well to treatment for a fever and an elevated white blood cell count. Her heart rate also was high.***