There will be at least one art quilt out of this; possibly 2. This is the cliff notes version, as I think I'm reaching my limit to being at the computer with the sun blaring in the window full force. The anesthetic administered to me was properophol (or whatever it was that killed Michael Jackson). they had to give me three doses of the drug that ( Read more... )

Well, don't think I'll be using the expression "I'd rather stick needles in my eyes" for a long time to come, because that's exactly what's going to happen to me tomorrow afternoon. Also knives and bits of plastic. I'm getting my first cataract removed. Yes, I'm a bit nervous about it, because it IS surgery, after all, and it's my EYE. I have to be ( Read more... )

I email my brother because of the Merrill Lynch stuff going on (and Dad's got a sizable account there). He replies and tells me that B, his wife, and my beloved sister-in-law had an appendectomy at 2AM this morning (she's through surgery and is recovering well), and that her father passed away at 1 AM - and he didn't tell her until she was post-op ( Read more... )