Thanks, CL! I forgot to say if anyone knows an expert seamstress to please send them to the surgeon who put in the metal aortic valve to show him how it's done. Apparently it is not that uncommon for the skin to not heal quite as much as they'd like over the stitches, so there is leaking just as there was before that big, nasty surgery took place! (Last year I thought the cardio was joking when he said there may be a loose stitch or two!)I am over being angry and there's something else going on which is just as dicey, life-wise, but nothing of "immediate" concern. So, we're good to go once I've got the iron topped off.

I am filling up with Light, Life and Love and so happy you all are part of it!