I was doing a fine job keeping myself away - surprisingly fine, in fact - of keeping myself away! Lots of pain and lots of pain medicine will do that, coupled with the residual effects of being under general anasthesia for about two hours.
Thanks for all the good thoughts and prayers. It looks like they worked!
That's an absolutely miserable way to spend a weekend. My appendix was beginning to rupture by the time I was operated on, which was last Thursday evening PST, and so the intended laproscopic method couldn't be done. So they took it out the old-fashioned way.
There's potential for severe infection if an appendix ruptures, but fortunately the broad-spectrum antibiotics I've been taking seem to have controlled that. With enough Vicodin, it doesn't hurt extremely badly, but that's quite a bit of Vicodin!
My brain and fingers agree even less than usual about what I'm doing, so I'll be taking it easy for the next few days. This morning was the first time I'd felt up to tackling all the accumulated EMAIL.
I wanted everyone to know that I'm improving, and how deeply I appreciate your thoughts and comments. It's the work that all of you do that inspires me to do the work that I do.
Jim
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