For those of you who missed me and wished me dead, I'm sorry to disappoint you. ;-)

I am off meds except over-the-counter Tylenol and weathering sitting in my wheelchair for five hours or more without too much discomfort even though it would be better to be up and walking around. At least when in bed, I literally feel no pain.

A hemorrhoidectomy is literally a pain in the ass, but I intend to beat the two week recovery by at least a week. So far I am on that course except for strange sleeplessness/weirdness that may be my coming off hospital morphine. Or, it may be just my mind and body's response to the pain, moving it to an inability to sleep while comfortable and painless--maybe.

Will attempt to catch up, but if I miss you in the process, forgive me. Seems like the alligators, like taxes, are relentless, but I'm fending them off with great facility, I think. Therefore I am.

Ron