Just before 7 a.m. when I wanted to post this, Mudcat was down. Looks like Max was working on it.

So here goes –

When I was visiting Tom last night, his dinner came. It was laughable – the total meal – chicken, mashed potatoes and onion ring (yeah, that's what it looked like; ONE onion ring) was about the size of an order of medium fries. Maybe smaller. He said later it was tasty, but there wasn't much there, and sometimes it's too much bother to try to get more. If the head of the kitchen is there, Tom gets normal sized meals (they got that worked out earlier last week), but if he's not there, Tom gets served the same size meals everyone else gets – and everyone else must be old, sick and not eat much.

First thing on the schedule this morning is to call Tom, then I have a phone date with Dr. Z between 8 and 8:30 to try to get the surgery back on track. He'll have been briefed by Dr. Bryson, with whom I spent a substantial amount of time on the phone on Saturday.

Yeah, I've taken the day off from work.

I'm sure I'll have phone calls to make after talking to Dr. Z. Tom, too. I'll report in between.

8:57 -- I've talked to Kim at Dr. Z's office. Dr. Z will call me between patients. Right now I'm sending Kim a long email delineating everything that's been going -- full background, etc. plus phone numbers of ALL his doctors, just in case there's some piece of information they don't have.

Linn