For some reason my only access to my original thread is "read only." So just wanted to let everybody know I'm back home again. Laprascopic surgery did the trick, a 3-holer. I'm still in a fair amount of pain but one cant expect to lose an organ without some "discomfort." I was given the stones...whoa...they are huge, the size of marbles. Ugly suckers too, and except for the one promised to a (somewhat weird, in this particular case) friend, in the trash. Still on clear fluids, but I'm assuming I'll be able to eat again soon. Again, thanks for all the input and support. I expect to have a guitar back in my lap in no time.

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I can't tell what happened, either. The other thread looked OK when I looked at it. Maybe there was bad HTML in a message and it locked your browser. Since you started this new thread, I closed the old one and crosslinked them. Hope that's OK.
-Joe Offer-