as I was saying. .

Hello all my friends. I have returned from the darkness and my first task was to say catch up on news about the happenings in wonderful downtown Lubbock.

Let me say first of all that I am a very lucky person. As most of you know I have a sister - a pretty damn special sister. She and her fiancee just returned from a trip to Israel.
She stepped off the plane on Friday night and Saturday morning was on another one to Lubbock. She left today as she is in the midst of planning her wedding that is happening on November 1 but our visit was very special. She did some shopping and brought me many books to read. We cried that I will not be able to attend the wedding and she got lost a lot in Lubbock. Thank you Susie for coming way out here to spend time with me. Who is next? You will love Lubbock.

Ok - here is the scoop.

3 days after surgery I awoke feeling great and began my morning with a cough. Wrong thing to do. That tore open all the fascia (look it up - I don't know what it means) something about the tissue inside my abdomen. So back to emergency room and eventually that day surgery again to fix all that.

I was released from ICU and sent to wonderful room 329 where I have become the long termer on the floor.

I will pass along more details as time goes on. The good news is that I am healing better than I was. The Dr. thought I might have surgery again this week but it is looking like that wont have to happen. Cross fingers, etc. please.

There is so much to tell you all and so many wild things about hospital care and special post surgery beds, the size of the tissues they give you, the 4 and 6 AM vitals taking but I will write more tomorrow. I know some of you were worried and I wanted to get this out to you asap.

I love you all and have loved the comments - keep em coming.

Till tomorrow - good night!