A brief message

Because I am just starting to use the computer again. But right now I owe you all the news. First I had to have surgery and when that news came it wasn’t bad, believe me. Before surgery I was feeling so bad the option of doing nothing seemed nothing short of insane. I needed a way around that obstruction, I needed a way to relieve that hellish pressure on my stomach. Unfortunately I still do. That’s the bad news. The operation wasn’t a success. They are going to do another procedure this week or next, involving another tube and more drainage. I’m just taking it a step at a time, just see what happens. 

The other thing: my family is here now! I put that in exclamation points, because I can’t tell you how much they improved my mood. I was so depressed before but now it all feels more manageable. As I said to them before, this is terrible timing for us if you look at it one way, another way is that this is the best timing possible. It’s nice to have your family around you in a crisis (though I know it is not the same for all people and all families, I am lucky I know), hell, it’s necessary. They help out my wife, they augment her, and I know I am not alone. So the bleakness is gone, as if it never were. 

Now if we could do something permanent like about those damn hiccups.