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Surgery is on! With or Without Sugar.

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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Surgeons and Partials and Pills, Oh My!

Did you ever notice that there are times when everything comes together at once? Well, Tuesday turned out to be one of those days indeed. Okay, maybe it’s not exactly a day I’d want to call the local newspaper about but it certainly wasn’t bad.
First the mail arrives with a letter from the Boston VA Surgery Clinic [...]

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Too Sweet for Surgery

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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Hospitalization and Being Non-Mobile

Drat! After spending my entire life being non-mobile (well at least as long as these portable things have been available that is), meaning no cell phone, no PDA, no Smartphone, no netbook–no nothing, I’m finally coming to the point where I’m beginning to regret it. I don’t even own a Trac Phone for heavens sake. And [...]

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Barium me not…

I’m off today (I’m off every day for that matter) to the local VA for a barium breakfast. I remember this now. I’ve done this three times before many years ago. The first two rounds it was chocolate flavored and that made it palatable if not exactly nutritious but the third time it was tooty-fruity [...]

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On The Art of Not Posting

The art of not posting…it isn’t as easy as it you might think. You have no idea what I have to go through to keep myself from posting so I’ve decided to make a short list of these items to let other bloggers know what they have to do to keep from posting no matter [...]

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Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]

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Yawn, creak, stretch, pop!

Ow! Yup, must be morning. Amazing as it may seem the temperature this AM is actually below freezing (it's usually close to or below zero normally). A whole 24 degrees! Hmmm, the grass might actually stop growing finally. I heard a story from the service manager down at the main store in Lebanon, [...]

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