Have been in the hospital. Helluva week. Am awaiting emergency surgery in 2 hours. Hoping not to lose a thumb of all things. They claim they’re keeping me here into next week, which doesn’t make for happy campers. Awesome ending to a POS year. Well, cheers to all of you! pic.twitter.com/IRckdFdT5y — Scott C. Holstad …
Continue reading Note from the Hospital last Thursday while awaiting Emergency Surgery
It's been a second consecutive bad, weird year for too many reasons. But in a year of absurd firsts, I recently got one that was totally out of the blue in a way different from most other unwanted surprises of 2025. Recent weeks have involved exams and consultations with various doctors, specialists and surgeons for …
Continue reading Surprising Health News
https://twitter.com/tangledscott/status/1900455924248072435 This post is following up on the previous post, Emergency Outpatient Surgery Two Days Ago. So much to say but not enough time, strength or energy. But I recalled two years ago, I underwent a more serious version of the same thing so looked it up, found I wrote about it here and also tweeted …
Continue reading Deja Vu. Brutal Surgery 2 Years Ago Today.
2023 has been challenging and I've been offline for most of it. Many reasons, but I wanted to post this status update both to remind you I'm still around and to show you an example of why I've found myself occupied in other areas than computing this year. I had to have a serious emergency surgery a few weeks ago. Here's a brief semi-synopsis.
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