Thursday, September 25, 2025

Going under the knife

 

By the time you read this, my wife and myself should be on our way to the DFW metroplex, where tomorrow morning a surgeon will be helping me lose weight by extracting a defective, rather dead kidney.  It used to be the case that one would stay in hospital for several days following that surgery, but thanks to medical insurance regulations and their reluctance to countenance or authorize "unnecessary" expenses (!), the current expectation is to kick me out that same day.  Thanks to your generosity, dear readers, if it should look like a better idea for me to stay an extra day or two, I'll be able to afford it - and that's an inexpressible relief, let me tell you!

I'll be grateful for your prayers, for the journey there, the preop workup and tests, the surgery, and the aftermath.  Blogging will obviously not be happening for a day or two.  I expect to be back online by Monday morning, God willing.

Thanks again.

Peter


38 comments:

libertyman said...

Best wishes for a successful procedure.

BillB said...

My prayers for you, Peter.

Rob said...

You're in my prayers...

tweell said...

Praying for you, Peter. Get better!

Skyler the Weird said...

May the Lord our Great Healer be with you and the Physicians treating you and may you come out of the Operation with less pain and more mobility.

Professor Badness said...

Prayers coming your way! We need you back on your feet.

Billy Oleary said...

Hope to have you back real soon. 🙂

JohninMd.(Halp!) said...

Godspeed, Peter, my prayers for a successful surgery and rapid recovery! I'm interested in getting your Western series, where are they available, Amazon? Any source that puts more money in your pocket, rather than theirs?

Tree Mike said...

Good fortune, good health and blessings to you on your "delete" maintenance.

Eaton Rapids Joe said...

The germs in a hospital are best avoided if possible.

Click your heels together "There is no place like home, there is no place..."

I will keep you in my prayers.

Anonymous said...

Best wishes and good luck with your procedure.

Jim said...

Heal quickly.

Judy said...

My prayers are with you.

Don't let them dismiss you before you are sure you can make the ride home and get into the house under your own steam. I had an idiot doctor that was going to send me home when it took two people to get me upright with a walker in the ICU unit. PT had to come in and prove to her that I couldn't climb 5 steps to get back into my house. I was so weak I didn't even qualify for a rehab center.

Anonymous said...

May the Great Physician watch over you, and work through your surgeon to give you a good outcome and a swift recovery.

Anonymous said...

Peter, praying for you both that the operation is successful. 🙏

lynn said...

Prayers lifted to God for you and yours. And the doctors and nurses taking care of you.

Charlie said...

I'll be praying for a successful procedure and rapid recovery.

Anonymous said...

The sooner your out of the hospital the better. I will pray for you.
Fitty

boron said...

looking forwawrd to reading your column/blog next week
I will say a prayer for you and hope that He will hear it

Anonymous said...

I alerted my prayer team. Prayer flag raised!

TXRed

Jen said...

Prayers for you Peter.

LB said...

Praying for safe travels, successful surgery, quick recovery and God's peace on you both.

Bluesman said...

Get well and heal well, take care.

walksfarwolfSL said...

If needed I can smuggle food in. LMK.

audeojude said...

best wishes... hope to hear you posting soon again, in better health.

Linda Fox said...

Leaving quickly is not just about saving money. It's also about germ avoidance.

Anonymous said...

Make darn sure they take out the correct one. /s. (Mostly)

Paul, Dammit! said...

God bless and keep you and Dorothy, Peter, and may St. Juliana pray for you too... and maybe put a good word in w/the boss.

SiGraybeard said...

Prayers for you and Dorothy that everything turns out better than expected!

glasslass said...

I brought home a life long present from the hospital. Not a nice present. They can have it back if they want. But my prayers are said and I'm assuring myself they worked.

Anonymous said...

My prayers for you, for c clean surgery and a quick recovery.
Don't let them discharge you if you don't think that it is safe for you to bring discharged. Yes, it might be more money, you can get that. It is your one and only life.
John in Indy

Anonymous said...

I hope your recovery is fast and pain free as possible.

Kurt said...

Give it to God. Be blesed

Mike Hendrix said...

May God bless you both, Peter, and best of lluck to you, brother.

Michael said...

Still praying but a tad concerned. You out yet?

Saul Jacka said...

I pray for you both.

Anonymous said...

Prayers, crossed fingers and toes. SLee

Jim_R said...

Dorothy posted on Wing and a Whim that they are back home safe.