John Doe continues to recover physically following the removal of his sedation. He is undergoing a daily physiotherapy regimen to help him learn how to manipulate his new limbs, being led around the hospital garden by our nurses. At first, he was all knees, like a baby deer, but he is adapting well, becoming quite the nimble doe these days. The patients love to watch his morning walks from the windows!

There was a minor setback with a degree of necrosis at the seam where the two halves of him meet. Rather than his body rejecting the grafted tissue, it would appear that his animal immune system is the stronger of the two, attacking the remainder of his human flesh, causing it to wither and retreat. We've placed him on immunosuppressants until the two parts of himself can come to a natural balance.

Mentally, he is in a great degree of shock from both the traumatic accident and the adjustments to his life circumstances. Along with anxiety, he shows signs of agoraphobia, terrified that he will be mistaken for an animal and shot at the moment he steps hoof outside the premises, which may make discharging him back into the general public challenging.

We're making him as comfortable as we can. Following complaints of neck pain, due to his human head being permanently fixed in an unnatural, horizontal alignment, we performed further spinal adjustments, grafting additional musculature to his torso to support his neck. We also embedded a set of beautiful antlers into his skull, which act as counterweights to keep his head upright. This has removed the neck strain entirely, though the additional animal tissue grafting has further augmented his appearance, much to his dismay.

Since he may be with us for some time, it would be healthy for him to engage with the hospital community. It will be Christmas in a few weeks! Our Santa Claus will soon be doing his rounds of the children's wards. It would brighten John's day to spread a little Christmas magic and their smiling faces. I'll make inquiries. I'm sure John would make a festive addition to Santa's sleigh.