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Back from surgery alive—I think

By Kirk M | Published May 20, 2009

I’m Back! After 11 total days in Boston, 9 days in post-op and 4 days recovery at home before I felt able to sit at my computer for any length of time, I’m back. Now just ask me if I’m glad to be home. Go ahead…ask me.
There is. of course, quite a lot to write [...]

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Surgery | The Game’s Afoot

By Kirk M | Published May 2, 2009

The word has been given. Surgery will take place on Wednesday, May 6th. Yes, that’s this coming Wednesday and no other. My lovely lady will be hauling my sure to be comatose self to my “local” VA at the wee hour of 4:30 Monday morning so I can catch the 7:00 AM VA shuttle to [...]

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Surgery is on! With or Without Sugar.

By Kirk M | Published February 18, 2009

Three times a charm they say and in my experience what they say (in this case) is often true. In parley with my surgeon down at the Boston VA yesterday we finally came to an accord. Surgery will take somewhere between the 15th and 30th of April, exact date depending on what her monthly surgery [...]

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Too Sweet for Surgery

By Kirk M | Published November 9, 2008

For those of you who are wondering what ever happened to me and the surgery that I was supposed to have had (yes, I said supposed to have had), it was cancelled at the last minute due to my blood sugar being too high. So what has high blood sugar have to with anything? According [...]

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