I was out of commission for a week...not by choice I assure you. I was the victim of a medical procedure gone terribly wrong. A simple endoscopy turned into an ambulance ride, emergency surgery, three days in ICU, and too many continuing days on the surgical recovery floor. I did not really have time to process this while it was happening. Fortunately I was sufficiently drugged with medicines that made me experience some pretty colorful dreams while under the influence. Now that I have come back to the much appreciated comforts of home, I can look back on a week that I never want to repeat. Last Monday I left the house for a short test and was looking forward to coming home to a pot of homemade potato soup and a diet coke. I never made it home. A puncture in my esophagus left me in extremely critical condition. I did not realize until after the fact how serious the situation was. I was terribly unlucky....but lucky at the same time. The medical team that caused this catastrophe was followed by another competent medical team that successfully repaired some extensive damage. I am well...recovering well. It could have had another not so pretty out come. Thank you to some amazing surgeons, patient nurses, loving family and friends and a God that has a few more days planned for me to hang out down here on earth. I did not know that a plateful of canned fruits and some cheerful flowers could be such picker upper in an otherwise not so pretty week. It is really about the simple things!
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