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Don,

 DS> am wearing a girdle/binder for support, and while I can
 DS> drive again, I'm still using the girdle/binder when lifting

 DL> Take it very easy...even after getting rid of the girdle. Am glad to
 DL> hear it went well without all the drama & such.

  I hate to see the overnight hospital bill...but with no family member
to stay with me, and all our friends working with families, it's nearly
impossible to get someone to stay with us overnight...even if we could
get a driver to and from the facility. With being on a fixed income, I
likely can get that written off.

  My brother is in worse physical shape than I am, having nearly been 
killed in a freak motorcycle wreck not 3 months after my wife died of
a heart attack over 13 years ago, not 3 months after I lost my Dad to 
pancreatic cancer. We have no other family in the local area (we are 
the last of our line, as it were)...the other relatives are out of 
state, and there's no way they can come here to take care of us, or 
vice versa.

  I am taking it easy...I surely don't want to undo the surgery.

 DL> Even had to take a colon test a couple of months ago. At 58...they said
 DL> I was normal. Hearing that...I cried for joy. The reason...have had the
 DL> "truck driver's syndrome" since my early 20's & didn't want anything
 DL> causing more pain than what I feel through the years.

  I've had several colonoscopies over the years...some have had nothing,
and others had benign polyps...but no cancer. I doubt any family has
escaped that scourge. I lost an uncle to colon cancer...my Dad and his
sister to pancreatic cancer...and my grandmother to lung cancer. 

  While the prep work for the colonoscopy is a PITA (especially with
hemorrhoids), unlike most other cancers...colon cancer is one of the 
most preventable. But, it is the second greatest killer of men and 
women, right behind (no pun intended) heart disease and breast cancer.

  It's too bad we can't use the gas afterwards in our vehicles. 
Otherwise, I'd get a pallet of Bush's Baked Beans, ask Duke for
the secret formula, and tell OPEC what they can do with their gas
prices. 

  But, the abdominal pain from diverticulitis is worse than a woman's
monthly cycle. 

  Just before my wife and I got married, she had to have a colonoscopy
done. When I went to pick her up, they thought her married name was
what her maiden name was, and when they addressed me as that, I said
"Not quite". When she talked to her Mom (who's black, and her Dad is
white...but they're both a couple of nuts ), she said "I'll bet you
didn't think you had a son that looked like him!!" .

Daryl

... Home Alone is when you can poop with the door open.
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