Just A Little Personal Notice

[gaara6666]

Good luck

[Three of Swords]

Good luck!

[gqwebb]

May Jesus Bless you with advantage and a hospital gown of +5 constitution (-2 on charisma thou)



Love and prays

[LordEntrails]

Thanks for that... I'm never going to be able to look Dulux in the face again!

[dulux-oz]

Thanks for that... I'm never going to be able to look Dulux in the face again!

That's not my face

Thanks to all for the best wishes - surgery scheduled for 22:00 UTC Thursday - just got the AOK from all the specialists: Kidney, Gastro,, etc, etc.

Hope the Kickstarter is going well - save me a spot: I'll dig in when I get back to a "proper" Inet connection.

Cheers

[LordEntrails]

Hope the Kickstarter is going well - save me a spot: I'll dig in when I get back to a "proper" Inet connection.

Yea, going really well. Funded in ~39 minutes ($29k). Reached the initial stretch goals in less than 4 hours. Doug and crew are scrambling to put up more and more goals but they keep getting reached. At $142 USD now. Slowing for the night (in the US), at least some.

[WESeib]

Good luck and I hope everything goes well!

[Ampersandrew]

... Surgery scheduled for 22:00 UTC Thursday - just got the AOK from all the specialists: Kidney, Gastro,, etc, etc.

That's great news. Hope your surgery goes well, mate, speak to you soon.

andrew

[Gwydion]

Anyone heard from him? Hope he is finished and recovering well....

[dulux-oz]

So, its now late Sunday afternoon (local time) - call it 07:30 UTC. I didn't actually get into surgery until late Friday afternoon (approx 05:00 UTC Friday). The surgery itself went well and the docs were/are very pleased - so I've now only got 20% of my stomach (organ).

The complications with my underlying kidney problems means that I've been in ICU every since - they've been monitoring my Potassium levels (quite closely) trying to determine if I needed to go on dialysis to get rid of it - Potassium effects your heart (as in "heart attack") - and they've finally decided that, no, at least for now, I'm still dialysis free. - YAY -

I've really only recovered my energy levels in the last couple of hours, so I thought I'd better drop people a line

So they're now packing me up and moving back to the "general ward" - 8b, Bed 7. At this stage I still expect to be here in hospital until late Wednesday morning (local time).

The INet connection SUX so all I can do is write the odd email/post/whatever - thank God I've got a couple of movies on my laptop.

So apart from all that I should be back firing on all cylinders in 5-6 weeks.

Thanks to all the well-wishes and to all those who've been thinking of me - I really do appreciate it. And thanks especially to Gwydion for the flowers - they really brightened the room.

Cheers