Kendall, maybe the phrase should be: "Beauty is skin deep." Forget about 'only'. On the other hand, I have viewed my whole colon- did you know that at the upper end there is a rounded turn-around? Reminded me of the truncated road system in Juneau. LOL

I was a bit startled the other day at my ten-day post-surgery checkup. Two surgeons are examining me and one says, Oh, by the way, what is that on your left hand fingertips? Do you play banjo?

I said, weakly, Guitar...

She nodded, pleased. I told them it was something like that.

It hadn't really occurred to me before that when you're lying there in the operating room, oblivious to the world, you are vulnerable to the piercing eyes and postulations of the professionals. Yuck?

Eb