My Upcoming Surgery

Last year I had five surgeries covering all sorts of things. The one in December was the worst, the hardest. It took me 10 weeks to recover from that one. Well, I have another one coming up now, 10 days from today. It's actually not a difficult procedure and is done in an outpatient surgery …

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An End of the Year Post

As I sit here writing this blog entry, I am recovering from a very major surgery I had on December 5th. It was quite painful, I was in the hospital for awhile, I still am in discomfort, but I'm coming along quite well, IMO. It's supposed to take 6-8 more weeks for me to heal, …

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Catching Up

Hi! It's been a long time & much has happened since I last wrote here. I think I'm just going to do a bullet point list of some high/low points, as that would be easiest on me. My dad came through his surgery spectacularly! He did not have to have is voice box removed or …

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Sobering Times

These are sobering times for my loved ones and me these days. Tomorrow I leave Chattanooga to go to Knoxville. Early Tuesday morning, my father is undergoing a frightening and terrible surgery at UT Hospital there. I moved to Tennessee from a nice little island I was living on several years ago, primarily to be …

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Brief Update

Hi all.  I'm so sorry for neglecting this blog.  It's almost all health related, and there's not a whole lot I can do about that. I've been feeling quite ill for about a month now.  Add to this fact that last Monday, I had another neurological surgical procedure, like I had in May, and that …

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