Time’s “Person of the Year” list has been narrowed to Vladimir Putin, Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, the Ferguson protesters, another person whose name escapes me right now, and Ebola caregivers.
If you’ve been under a rock for the past couple of days and don’t know, it’s Ebola caregivers. There will be five different covers, and three of them are of Ebola survivors. Dr. Brantly is one of them, and the only American.
When the news broke last summer, I wouldn’t have anticipated this, not at all. I thought it would be a blip in the news and that’s it, but by the time the “Dateline” special aired in the first week of September, Drs. Sacra and Crozier were diagnosed too. 
And until it was announced that Dr. Brantly was back here, alive, AND CLIMBED OUT OF THE AMBULANCE AND WALKED INTO THE HOSPITAL (I still cannot believe he did that!) I figured that he and Nancy Writebol would both end up in a mass grave somewhere.
ETA: He’s not the only American. The woman in the white shirt is an American MSF/DWB worker who lives in NYC when she’s not overseas.
Just heard on CNN that Dr. Sacra, the doctor who caught it in the OB unit, is planning to go back in January for 3 1/2 weeks, mainly to give the overworked staff something of a break.
I just posted this relatively lighthearted story about him on another board. Yeah, some weirdos interpreted this as Ben & Jerry’s being a cure for Ebola. :rolleyes: :smack: TL : DR - He had recovered to a point where they wanted him to eat at least 1,000 calories a day, but his appetite hadn’t returned. His wife got him a pint of his favorite flavor, and another story said that he did indeed eat the whole thing in one sitting, although he WAS drinking it by the end.
Let’s just say that if I tried to do that, I’d do the same thing Dr. Brantly apparently did the first time he tried to eat after he was sent back. But if you haven’t had solid food for days or weeks on end, your stomach probably won’t recognize it anyway.