Hi gang--
You'll recall, a couple of posts back, that I mentioned confronting some potentially momentous health issues. Well, the tests are pretty much all in now, and alas I'm going to need to go in the hospital for some major (and rather serious) surgery.
Unless something really weird happens, this surgery will be going down a week from today--Monday, August 7th. I'll probably be in the hospital for a few days afterward recovering, and then home for more recovery--they're telling me it'll probably be a good six weeks from date of cutting to when I'll be 100% again. I'm hoping and assuming that I'll be fairly functional (i.e. ready to get back online) after the first week or two, but I honestly won't know for sure until I get there.
So, between all that, and the fact that the gory details of that surgery are kind of off-topic for this blog, I'm going to be putting this one on hiatus for a little while... okay, maybe if and when I'm feeling up to it, I might log in here to make some disparaging comments about hospital food. But I seriously suspect things will be pretty danged quiet on this blog for the next few weeks.
Those of you who *would* like to know all the gory details, and to keep tabs on how I'm doing, I invite you to follow my personal LiveJournal. Just about all the posts on that blog pertaining to my operation are/will be set to "friends-only," so you will need to have a LiveJournal account and request that I add you as a friend to view them. The easiest way to do that is to add me to your own LiveJournal friends list; I'll be checking my LiveJournal every day between now and the evening of August 6th, and if I see you've "friended" me between now and then, I will "friend" you back. How's that for a deal?
I do fully intend to continue my healthy eating patterns throughout this latest blip in my life--and I also am fully intending to come back to this blog once I'm sufficiently on the mend. In the meantime, once again I will gratefully accept any and all thoughts, prayers, or whatever other spiritual/philosophical positive energies you might feel moved to send my way on August 7th and afterward. In the meantime, y'all take care of yourselves too, and enjoy that healthy attitude!
Peace out,
/the duck
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