I'm baaaaack...

 

After more medical misadventures than usual, my wife and I are back home.  My right kidney was removed on Friday, and the surgeon fastened me back together with great enthusiasm - my wife has counted 33 surgical staples so far!  I think they set off the TSA scanners at DFW airport as we drove past on Sunday morning!  They'll be in for a couple of weeks.

We spent a couple of days in post-op recovery, then drove home yesterday.  I'm in quite a lot of pain and can't move freely, so activities (including blogging) will be restricted.  I'll post as and when I can on this blog, but I may not feel up to it at times, so please be patient.  There won't be the usual Memes post today, because I didn't have enough time online to accumulate my usual collection last week.  I'll try to have more next week, to make up for it.

I'm going to be very restricted in terms of movement for at least the next couple of months.  I won't be able to attend the annual Blogorado gathering, so I hope all of my readers who go there will hoist a glass and gnaw on a steak on my behalf.  By late November I hope to be fit enough to complete the tests prescribed by a local neurosurgeon, which will allow him and his team to decide on the best solution for my spinal problems.  Given the seriousness of the matter, I'll probably take all the test results and ask for a second opinion from a specialist in DFW, because we'll have one shot at getting this right, and if it doesn't work, there probably won't be enough "wiggle room" (that's a highly scientific term, I'm told) to re-do it or attempt something different.  I'll let you know more as and when we have some certainty about the way forward.

Meanwhile, I'm having to fend off a few well-meaning friends who keep telling me that they know what's going on better than I do, and if only I'd do what they suggest, everything would work out OK.  I have... a few reservations about that... but, as I said, they mean well.  For them (and to entertain the rest of you, dear readers) here's Jethro Tull's approach to that sort of thing.

Peter