I don't know whether to gripe at the results of the operation or to give thanks that modern medicine has kept you (among others) as well and sound as you are. As the Broadway song says, "I'm not dead yet". and shrimp scampi is worth living for. as for words, they've all been said by the previous posts. Good thoughts and prayers and midwest folkie juju are being sent out as I type, and the series of Genuine Purebred Midwest $#@!-reduction candles will continue when I get home from work. Take care of yourselves and each other (not forgetting the dog). Both of you. Get some serious pampering in. Love, Mary