A night in Lubbock

I cannot seem to find the right temperature in my lovely apartment in the Residence Inn of Lubbock. We just had one of those surprise severe storms common on the Texas plain and the power was off for about an hour. Interesting way to begin my first night in town.

Tomorrow the festivities begin. I will go into surgery at 7am with the actual event to happen about 8. My former seminary roomie JC will be arriving in the morning to spend a week with me. JC has this same surgery almost 2 years ago and is barely recognizable from our days of living together in Berkeley. He will be a big help as he is a natural caregiver and, of course, has firsts hand knowledge of what I will be going through.

When JC leaves my old friend from Tampa, Edwin, will arrive and spend a week, driving back to Albuquerque with me and spending some time there. It is a very special thing to have friends willing to put their lives on hold to help out a friend. I am very grateful for their presence in my life.

When I arrived in town I stopped at the Health Food Market, recommended by Dr. Syn, and picked up nourishment for the next week. Well - nourishment is a very lose term for the various forms of liquid protein I will be living on for a week. Later in the week I get to add blended meat to the diet. Blended meat! Think about that! Chicken in a blender - I think I am going to try chicken, a little fat free sour cream, and some salsa and hope it tastes like a liquid burrito. Time will tell.

Well its off to bed now so that I am chipper and ready at 7am. I love you all. I do love to see the comments on the blog by the way so keep them coming. Tomorrow (or sometime shortly after that I will be writing to you as a thinner person - we hope).