Cut me: I’m Sick.
In a few hours, I’ll be two ounces lighter and short one organ: my appendix. I tend to regard such medical hijinks as a sign of progress, as goofy as that sounds. I am advancing in age, and advancing is good! It means either improving or taking enemy territory.
This is the first surgery I will have had since birth, and therefore I’m a little trepidatious about going under. Happily, they are using laparoscopic surgery, which will be less invasive, and leave my abdominal muscles intact.
Mostly I’m just aggravated that I’m going to miss out on several perfectly good work days. I am fortunate to have a great gal who is mothering me through the process and recovery.
To the right, my actual guts, painted by the surgeon’s chief artist.
2008
14
Jan
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Hey Steve, it’s Brent, who you may or may not remember as a peripheral friend/acquaintance from those halcyon days on Ravine Street (well, there were certainly “moments” that could be described as such, don’t you think?). I came across your Web site per my habit of Googling old friends, and wanted to wish you the best of luck with your surgery. Hopefully by the time you read this you’ll be well on your way to recovery, or at least drooling blissfully in an opiate-fueled haze.
I noticed your post on print vs. online magazines–a topic oft-mulled around my office. I’m a writer and associate editor for Cincinnati Magazine these days, where we’re in the process of archiving 40 years of material. Now that’s some fun.
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you best of luck, and congratulate you on your book.
Brent
p.s. Nice cecum.
Hi Steve,
Get well soon! We are thinking about you!!
-eugene joseph koontz