It's like having huge sacks of concrete lifted off your soul. I feel so light and I can do anything now.

He was concerned about us, about family and about other people who were worried about him.

I'm going to be in the line of people who want to give him a big hug.

At first I was in disbelief. I thought it was a dream actually, another odd dream in this whole nightmare sequence.

That's pretty typical of Jim, putting others before himself.

He's alert and he was asking how we were doing and said he was sorry for the whole situation. My mom said, 'Don't worry about it — just get home and we'll talk about all that stuff when you get here.