No whining here today, no sirree

My friend is back in the hospital. He had to go in yesterday for an emergency repair job on the last surgery. Or rather, another section of the same part of his body started to fail so that needed to be repaired in addition to the last repair. Then somewhere down the line—maybe as long as six months from now, depending on how things go with him—he'll have to have yet another surgery to remove the stents (or whatever they're called) holding him together until his body repairs. (Artificial connecting valve thingamajigs.)

This last crisis was not life threatening, the doctor said, and the exception rather than the rule in these cases, but this sort of thing does happen. Still, a demoralizing setback. He'd been doing so well and he and his wife had started to relax a bit. We all had! I guess the moral here is: never relax.

Prayers and good vibes welcomed gratefully.


Random quote of the day:

"Dreams are real. Especially when they are sacrificed."

—J. Robert King, Lancelot du Lethe