Thanks a bunch.  I remember what a big to-do your
last year hospital stay was.

About laughing, it hurts to laugh.
(It also hurts to break wind, but
that's another story.)

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> Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >
> > Tracy writes:
> >
> > > I had hernia surgery on Monday.
>
> > Well, we've all told you over and over again to take it
> > easy and not to bust a gut -- and did you listen?.
> >
> > But you're not likely to get much sympathy here on this
> list.
> Well, I have to take exception to that statement.  This
> time last year I was in the ICU of Memorial Hospital and
> leaking like a sieve.  About 7-8 weeks later, one of the
> first recollections I had of 2002 was a very large poster
> on the facing wall with a big blue "HP" logo in the middle
> , and lots of scribbles all around it.  I could recognize
> later on that it contained both handwritten/scanned and
> typeset well wishes from many of you (and you know who you
> are).  When I did finally start to "reboot" weeks later I
> discovered hundreds of notes of sympathy that morphed into
> encouragement and humor as time went by.  It was and is an
> indescribable feeling to not only made it through, but
> "documented".
> While we may bicker and giggle and debate and OT ourselves
> to sleep at times, this is one incredibly sympathetic and
> supportive list.
> And I THAN YOU all.  Again.  It is indeed a very happy new
> year.
> > Wirt ("It only hurts when I laugh") Atmar
>
> Ah, but laughter is the best medicine :-)  As one person
> noted on the poster, "Got the word you are currently being
> subjected to an involuntary direct association with the
> medical profession."
> Jeff ("Only somewhat Drain Bamaged") Kell


BT


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Tracy Johnson
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