A Breathless Hush

BarryKirk wrote:

Henry Brown wrote:Agreed. Hope thing go well for Sharon.

Agreed, my prayers are with Sharon and David. Having said that I hope she has a top notch surgeon. If it's another spine surgery, the doc I use, Dr. Paul McAfee in Towson Maryland may be quite literally the best in the world at the art of spine surgery. Hope the doc your using is of that same caliber.

Thank you all for your well wishes.

As for the schedule, we're going down for the pre-op on to state, but the surgery itself is scheduled for Friday.

Her surgeon is Doctor Dheera Ananthakrishnan, probably one of the handful of top flight surgeons for scoliosis (which is Sharon's problem), and a really cool person. She's spent time as a volunteer with both Doctors without Borders and the World Health Organization, and we have been extraordinarily fortunate to have her available in Atlanta, which is only about two hours down the road from Greenville. There have been unanticipated difficulties with Sharon's past surgeries, in at least two cases requiring a substantial rethink of the procedure — or, at least, of how best to gain access to the necessary portions of the spine — but we have never felt anything other than completely confident in Doctor A (as she is known to patients and staff alike for, I think, obvious reasons ) and her skill.

runsforcelery wrote:Thank you all for your well wishes.

As for the schedule, we're going down for the pre-op on to state, but the surgery itself is scheduled for Friday.

My thoughts are with Sharon, and I hope she does well and has a quick recovery. I also hope your kids are coping with this.

-- Bob G

robertamgottlieb wrote:

runsforcelery wrote:Thank you all for your well wishes.

As for the schedule, we're going down for the pre-op on to state, but the surgery itself is scheduled for Friday.

My thoughts are with Sharon, and I hope she does well and has a quick recovery. I also hope your kids are coping with this.

-- Bob G

And with Snippet #34 we most likely have come to the end of the small bytes as appetizers for the feast of deliverance, that being the UPS/FedEx/USPS and all of the other delivery methods for the 'dead tree' editions of "Like a Mighty Army" (I'll just assume that lacking live wyverns, air delivery is still in future, waiting on Bezos' robot copter!) 16 days of winter (groundhog's shadow) before the sunrise of York ... err ... LAMA!

Under "why I love ebooks" is that I won't have to worry about delivery time. I'll have LAMA in my greedy hands (actually on my computer) on the 18th.

Under "why I dislike ebooks" is that I can't get it earlier.

Charybdis wrote:And with Snippet #34 we most likely have come to the end of the small bytes as appetizers for the feast of deliverance, that being the UPS/FedEx/USPS and all of the other delivery methods for the 'dead tree' editions of "Like a Mighty Army" (I'll just assume that lacking live wyverns, air delivery is still in future, waiting on Bezos' robot copter!) 16 days of winter (groundhog's shadow) before the sunrise of York ... err ... LAMA!

runsforcelery wrote:
Thank you all for your well wishes.

As for the schedule, we're going down for the pre-op on to state, but the surgery itself is scheduled for Friday.

Her surgeon is Doctor Dheera Ananthakrishnan, probably one of the handful of top flight surgeons for scoliosis (which is Sharon's problem), and a really cool person. She's spent time as a volunteer with both Doctors without Borders and the World Health Organization, and we have been extraordinarily fortunate to have her available in Atlanta, which is only about two hours down the road from Greenville. There have been unanticipated difficulties with Sharon's past surgeries, in at least two cases requiring a substantial rethink of the procedure — or, at least, of how best to gain access to the necessary portions of the spine — but we have never felt anything other than completely confident in Doctor A (as she is known to patients and staff alike for, I think, obvious reasons ) and her skill.

That is good to hear that she is in the best of hands.

It's been over 100 hours without activity in the the big guy's plan thread. I can't think of a nicer hush.

It has been almost a week since RFC has feed our collective addiction. Is it possible that we will be lucky enough to get Snippet #35? With apologies to BSG "What say we all?" (Only if Mrs Weber is still doing well from her latest surgery.)

USMA74 wrote:It has been almost a week since RFC has feed our collective addiction. Is it possible that we will be lucky enough to get Snippet #35? With apologies to BSG "What say we all?" (Only if Mrs Weber is still doing well from her latest surgery.)

Greedy, greedy. Even if we are going to get one it won't be due till at least the 14th.

USMA74 wrote:It has been almost a week since RFC has feed our collective addiction. Is it possible that we will be lucky enough to get Snippet #35? With apologies to BSG "What say we all?" (Only if Mrs Weber is still doing well from her latest surgery.)

Since the book come out in the US in 9 days, I don't think we will get another snippet. The few extra days will just make us more rabid to buy the book as soon as it hit the shelf. 9 more days .

Has anyone heard anything about how Mrs. Weber is doing in the last few days? Here is hoping she is having a quite, uneventful recovery.

KNick wrote:

USMA74 wrote:It has been almost a week since RFC has feed our collective addiction. Is it possible that we will be lucky enough to get Snippet #35? With apologies to BSG "What say we all?" (Only if Mrs Weber is still doing well from her latest surgery.)

Since the book come out in the US in 9 days, I don't think we will get another snippet. The few extra days will just make us more rabid to buy the book as soon as it hit the shelf. 9 more days .

Has anyone heard anything about how Mrs. Weber is doing in the last few days? Here is hoping she is having a quite, uneventful recovery.

Well, we did get a really good final snip (#35) on Monday and now we ... W A I T ... for a surcease of our mutual addiction (temporary though it may be!) Personally, I'm waiting to hear of warehouse break-ins and shipping truck hijacks as the 17 month wait gets out of some of our less stable member's control. Based upon some of the other threads, I'd be wary of shady characters in Walmart and B&N stores this weekend. They might not be stable and besides, the drool is very off-putting. Restrain yourselves, my brethren and cool your ardor with the cool Olympics ... now when is that Curling on?