I stopped counting at 100 (following the statement of a local Fam.
Practitioner, also a friend, when I queried him about number of patients
lost by the anesthesiologist who was scheduled to knock me out for removal
of gall bladder) at the number of get well messages you all sent me.  It
took me 3 hours the first day home to take them off and they continue to
come.  Many many thanks for them.  I especially enjoyed some of the cyber
messages with animated cards.  One that started me laughing (which HURT!)
showed lots of people not smiling and then smiling.  Some of their hair
went straight out (as if they had put their finger in a light socket!) when
they smiled.  So many many thanks to all of you who lightened my mood in
the past two days.

You can imagine me walking very slowly, holding my abdomen most of the time
and trying not to groan too loudly when some muscle or other complains,
esp. when I cough, or try to sneeze or (perish the thought!) laugh.

Surgery was Monday, a friend took me home to her house for TLC that night,
and another friend delivered me and wonderful homemade bread (still warm)
and minestrone soup (still hot) to my house on Tuesday.  After going to the
post office and then to the bank, I ran into the nurse from the surgeon's
office, who demanded to know why I was not home in bed.  She convinced me
to start listening to my achy body and stop trying to do too much.  So....
I missed rehearsal last night and will probably skip another appointment
today.

If you want to laugh, imagine me trying to get into and out of my waterbed
without feeling like I am dying. Another image sure to bring smiles (if you
are old enough to remember the Carol Burnett show) is thinking of Tim
Conway's old skits of the old men whose feet moved alot but who didn't
really move from the same spot.  That is about how I feel when I walk.  I
learned the hard way on Tuesday that I cannot yet RUN up my stairs.

Anyay, am back on the computer, though for short periods only, so feel free
to say hello, but not all at once!  I am not up to another 3 hour marathon
like yesterday, wonderful though all those messages were.

PS For those of you who have asked for Author Instructions, they are en
route! (see above, my trip to the PO).  :-)

Love all you lactnuts.  Whoda thunk I would have got so many little notes
from all over the world? (I have a feeling I know who spilled the beans
about my surgery!)

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