Modern Day Ulysses Embarks on New Zealand Health Miracle Odyssey

By: PRLog
Author Jack Eadon’s life has always been “spectacular.” He’s been a cult rock star, an acclaimed author, and has survived five brain surgeries. Now he’s going on a New Zealand odyssey to become a medical miracle.
PRLog - Oct. 20, 2014 - LA QUINTA, Calif. -- American author Jack Eadon is ready to go international, but not for a book tour. Instead, he is undertaking a medical odyssey to prove, in keeping with his Greek hero Ulysses, that perseverance is the key to success.

Ulysses spent ten years fighting the Trojan war, then ten years returning home. Jack has spent more than thirty years fighting for his health, and now he is heading home in terms of a return to wellness. Like most Greek heroes, Jack had mysterious origins. He was born as a super-twin, a 1 in 40,000,000 instance when two separate fetuses exist in the womb. He fictionalized this experience in the first book of his American Drama Series, “Head Trip,” about sibling rivalry between super-twin brothers.

His Own Trojan War

Like Ulysses fighting the Trojans, Jack has fought the odds to become successful. But fame and fortune do not always equate with health and happiness. Just as Ulysses was called against his will to fight the Trojans, Jack, literally, was forced to fight for his life, surviving five surgeries between 1978 and 2010, to rid himself of a rare, recurring Epidermoid brain tumor.

Jack thinks of that last surgery as his Trojan Horse—the event that finally ended his war. But for Ulysses, the end of one war only led to new challenges. Ulysses spent ten years trying to reach home on relentless seas. Jack has so far spent nearly five years trying, ironically, to recover from the swallowing dysfunction caused by his 2010 tumor removal.

Scylla & Charybdis

Jack has also suffered from partial facial paralysis—he sees these two medical issues as his Scylla and Charybdis. Charybdis, a whirlpool, he equates with his facial paralysis. Not wanting to be defined by the paralysis, Jack began a heroic exercise regimen two years ago. He does over a thousand facial muscle clenches daily, slowly lessening the paralysis. As for Scylla, the six-headed monster, Jack equates five of its heads with his five brain surgeries, and the sixth with dysphagia, his swallowing dysfunction.

Ulysses made many side trips on his way home. Similarly, Jack will travel 6,897 miles to New Zealand in March, where he hopes to find his Penelope in the form of a medical breakthrough to restore his swallowing. “Just imagine being tube-fed for four years! Not a single taste all that time, except for saliva!”

The Odyssey Continues

Jack’s health odyssey will take him to the EATS Clinic in Christ Church, New Zealand. There, dysphagia specialists will administer experimental biofeedback swallowing therapy. At the clinic, Jack says, “I will have a scope placed down my throat and will view myself swallowing on a video monitor. With feedback from various swallowing pressure gauges around my throat area, I will modify my swallow ‘sequence,’ which was compromised in the 2010 surgery.” This therapy will help Jack’s cerebral cortex “learn” how to swallow.

Jack is publicizing his odyssey to increase awareness of and raise money for the Epidermoid Brain Tumor Society (50%) and the National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders (50%.). Donations can be made at Jack’s donation website: http://greatforesttrain.com/final/index.html

As a writer, Jack also equates himself with Ulysses’ creator, Homer, who was blind yet produced two of the greatest epics ever written. Jack has faced medical issues for the last thirty years, yet he has persevered and written his own epic, the seven-book, 5,500 page American Drama Series, the womb-to-tomb adventures of his alter ego, Marcus Ramsay. “Only a few millennia separate Homer and me!” Eadon adds. “He’s resting in peace, while I’m still on my journey.”

Will Eadon, a modern-day Ulysses, return to his Penelope? Will Jack regain his ability to swallow? Will this twenty-first century Homer continue to publish his epic novels, Book#3 out next July? The real question, according to Jack, is, “Will I be on a normal diet by then and have a wonderful birthday barbecue next July 6th?”

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