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How to tell you have an industrial strength guy
Chuck scored really high points on the Best Husband in the World scale by giving me this cute-as-the-dickens Vermont Teddy Bear as a get well gift after my recent wrist surgery. The cast is on the left arm, and it has a little sling just like mine! Its little hospital gown is even open in
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Update from the extreme makeover dept
Well, I am, I hope, on the tail end of the last of my extreme makeover surgeries. 23 days ago I had my wrist operated on to correct a protruding ulna, the result of an old break. They took off about half an inch of bone (off thee end, so no plates or screws were
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Running on empty
Ah, home. We finally got back about 10:30 yesterday morning, after missing our connecting flight in Portland. We were flying Horizon Air from Pendleton to Portland, then Alaska Air from Portland to LAX. We were mightily impressed with the friendliness and helpfulness of all concerned – they put us up in Portland and gave us
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How the west was won (in a manner of speaking, anyway)
We have been quite busy for the past week flying up the coast of California into Oregon. My sister and brother-in-law (who is a small plane pilot) flew in a Cessna 182 from their home in Pittsburgh, PA out to Long Beach. we joined them there for the next leg of their trip around the
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Let’s do the time warp again!
Monday was Labor Day, but it was also the night they showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Hollywood Bowl and WE WERE THERE! Yes it’s true, I am no longer a virgin – I have seen RHPS in a theatre setting. It was wild – 7800+ people all throwing rice, toast, toilet paper,
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The great unveiling
So yesterday was the big day! After twelve days stuck in a splint over my elbow, we finally got to see my latest surgical results. The doc cut through the bandaages, off came the splint and there it was: my now withered left arm. It’s weak as a kitten, but I’m free! It’s one dat
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