Howie, where the hell ya been?
Horrible, ugly story. It all begins in December 2001. 30+ years of smoking combined with a bad case of bronchitis. Coughing fit. Cough SO violently I split my gut...literally...tore a 14 inch gash in my transverse colon.
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Had to have an emergency colostomy. Fortunately, a reversible one so I don't have to walk around the rest of my life with a bag. (yuck)
Jump ahead to December 2004. Almost a repeat of 2001. Catch a cold. Cough so hard I internally split the scars from the 2001 operation. Can you say "hernia"?
January 2005, massive hernia repairs. Jump ahead 6 months to June. STILL suffering from chronic bronchitis (from smoking) and cough up another hernia.
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December 16, 2005. Enter the hospital again for another hernia repair. In for a week. Come home for a few days and come down with a serious post-surgical infection. Damn near bought the farm. Back in the hospital for another week and beat the infection back. Finally come home (hopefully) for good.
Anyway, for most of December and January, I had no computer access while in the hospital, and for my first weeks home, both trips, couldn't sit up at the computer for more than a few minutes and just didn't feel like getting "thread involved".
Oh...I quit smoking (for good this time) last June, so no lectures, please.
The worst part of it all is now I'm a "waiter" of sorts. I don't get clearance to get back on the Cerulean Battle Cruiser until mid February. Haven't ridden since middle of December and I'm Jonesin' real bad.
Oh, thanks for the "triangulation" explanation.
Need to get back to work on my post-count now.
