programming note

from a hospital bed

I’m writing this on Wednesday night, from a hospital bed. I’ve been here since Sunday afternoon. I’ve been having stomach issues I won’t get into here because the details are not anything you want to know. Trust me. But I’m getting care, if not definitive answers, and that’s what matters. The answers will come.

I’ve never had a hospital stay before. I had one surgery in my life - I had my tubes tied back in the late 90s - and that was an in and out procedure. So this is all new to me. I am being poked and prodded like a pin cushion, I have had an MRI and two ultrasounds and an echocardiogram and some other kind of scan and an endoscopy is scheduled for tomorrow. I am 90% sure my gallbladder will be coming out this week.

I have some of the comforts of home here - I’ve got my laptop and I get to wear my own comfortable clothes instead of a hospital gown and the hospital tv gets the YES network so I can watch the Yankees. Sleeping is kind of uncomfortable, but I’m not much of a sleeper, anyhow. So it’s not all terrible. But: being in a hospital bed is not really conducive to writing anything worth reading, so I’m taking a little break from here until I get back home (unless a creative mood strikes me, which seems unlikely). I just wanted to give you a heads up as to why newsletters have been infrequent and why they might not come at all for a bit.

Stay well, and I’ll talk to you soon.