A Successful Surgery

He made it through surgery, sans some intestines, but who really needs all their intestines anyway? Being impatient and not thinking clearly, my normal state, I called him the next day. He answered the phone, and said he'd been better. His parents were there, so I said I'd talk to him later.

So there he is, with tubes going in and out, in pain, barely able to speak, and there's his ex-wife, calling him to ask, "So, how you doing?"

I am so thoughtful.

I talked to his mother lately. They'd had him sitting up already, for an hour or so. He was weak when he went into surgery, he's been so sick for so long, yet there he was, sitting in a chair.

So there's that. Surgery completed. Maybe back to chemo later on. But first things first -- recovery from the surgery.