I don't know how long this connection will hold up, but I really wanted to try and get SOMETHING up here....it looks so darned bleak and barren w/o any posts up, and my co-authors are all engaged in some time consuming activities that can't be put off, so they couldn't post anything lately.

I'm still staying at my ex's place, it's just more conducive to faster healing than home is at the moment, and speaking of healing, I'm rather pleased with my progress so far. I am up to walking almost half a mile day now (albeit in stages, not continious), and I am tapering off of the oxycodein tabs...and best (and hardest) of all, it's been 55 days nicotine free. I dread the confrontation that will occur when I go home and institute a "no smoking in the house or car" policy. I find it wrong to impose restrictions on anothers right to engage in a legal activity and it makes me feel like a real hypocrit to impose such sanctions, but having said that, I KNOW two things; 1), I will be unable to continue my abstinence if I am exposed to such a great extant of smoke as presently exists, and 2), if I resume smoking, I will be throwing away this one last chance that all of the dedicated medical professionals have given me. As it is, they estimate that I've been given another 5 good years, and I don't want to waste any of them, or shorten that estimate by my own stupidity. I just hope that I can get the others in the household to make what I know is a difficult (and somewhat selfish on my part) sacrifice towards that end. Only time will tell. I won't say I'll never smoke again; I am a nicotine addict. All I can say is "I won't smoke today". I can only pray that it will get easier with time.

On the family front, we have received some difficult news this week; it seems that my ex wife will require surgury to repair tears of the rotater cuffs of both shoulders, and she's scheduled to have the right shoulder surgury done Nov. 28.; and we learned just yesterday that my ex-mother in law will need cardiac surgury to repair a leaking aortic valve....don't know when she will go in to have it done, but it will have to be soon, by all accounts. At her age (no, I WON'T tell it G'ma ) such surgury is pretty problematic, I hope know that I can count on all of you to give us your continued support; you can not conceive of how much it has meant to me and all of my family.

On a much brighter note, LC Beth*A is making the move from San Diego to Indianapolis at the beginning of November, so we can enjoy the pleasure of her company physically, as well as through E-Mail and Tx. (I'm sorry if I'm letting the cat out of the bag, Beth, but I just can't keep a secret like this..) Assuming that the Medicos give me clearence to resume driving and flying( and most likely even if they don't!) at my first post op check-up, I'm going to fly to San Diego and assist her in driving her worldly goods back to her new home here in Indiana. Hopefully, she'll find the time to start putting some of her patented "good horse-sense posts" up here on a semi-regular basis too.

Time to go for my theraputic walk/exercises, talk to you all soon.

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