Friar Tuck: Blog

Thanks for your patience! Surgery was a little more extensive than I thought it would be (5 hours!)- he worked on S2 - L5, with some fusions in the L2-L5 area. Immediate relief from much of the pain, but it's taking longer to heal than we thought it would. I'm up to walking a 1/4 mile now, and hope to be doing more than that very soon. But this damn oxycodone is not conducive to concentrating on this blank screen in front of me. Trying to wean myself off from it, and slowly but surely the words are starting to come again.
I see Handyman finished with his version of this story, and has left the bar right up there - good story! I'll try to do justice to the examples left for me!
Again, thanks for your patience, and for the encouraging notes some of you have sent - I appreciate them!

Thank you all for all the positive comments! I really appreciate them!

For a while, anyway. The kids are getting nervous, and so am I. Never done, err, wrote about this before, and Kay and Rob are even less experienced! Should be an interesting honeymoon, and looks like it's going to be a cruise, too! Rob's gonna play it safe, and not even open the sail locker. He's not all that experienced on a gaff-rigged boat, and anyway, like someone said, it's what goes on in the cabin *under* the sail locker that matters on a honeymoon cruise!
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Of matters mundane, I'm scheduled for some heavy duty lumbar surgery (with fusion) on the 15th, so we might not hear much from the kids for a little while. Again. Your patience is appreciated!

Just been way too busy, and at my age (73) it's getting harder to concentrate. I spent a night at the hospital with chest pains, turned out not to be cardiac-related. Also trying to get stuff done before some major back surgery on 12/15. I don't want to leave my wife in the lurch for things needing done. I'm a few pages into chapter 37, and hoping to get it done and out for editing Real Soon Now.

Thanks to the ghost of Stevie Ray for some of the inspiration for this, and to Roberta Flack, for singing, to my mind, one of the most beautiful songs ever done.