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   Don,   
      
    DS> am wearing a girdle/binder for support, and while I can   
    DS> drive again, I'm still using the girdle/binder when lifting   
      
    DL> Take it very easy...even after getting rid of the girdle. Am glad to   
    DL> hear it went well without all the drama & such.   
      
     I hate to see the overnight hospital bill...but with no family member   
   to stay with me, and all our friends working with families, it's nearly   
   impossible to get someone to stay with us overnight...even if we could   
   get a driver to and from the facility. With being on a fixed income, I   
   likely can get that written off.   
      
     My brother is in worse physical shape than I am, having nearly been    
   killed in a freak motorcycle wreck not 3 months after my wife died of   
   a heart attack over 13 years ago, not 3 months after I lost my Dad to    
   pancreatic cancer. We have no other family in the local area (we are    
   the last of our line, as it were)...the other relatives are out of    
   state, and there's no way they can come here to take care of us, or    
   vice versa.   
      
     I am taking it easy...I surely don't want to undo the surgery.   
      
    DL> Even had to take a colon test a couple of months ago. At 58...they said   
    DL> I was normal. Hearing that...I cried for joy. The reason...have had the   
    DL> "truck driver's syndrome" since my early 20's & didn't want anything   
    DL> causing more pain than what I feel through the years.   
      
     I've had several colonoscopies over the years...some have had nothing,   
   and others had benign polyps...but no cancer. I doubt any family has   
   escaped that scourge. I lost an uncle to colon cancer...my Dad and his   
   sister to pancreatic cancer...and my grandmother to lung cancer.    
      
     While the prep work for the colonoscopy is a PITA (especially with   
   hemorrhoids), unlike most other cancers...colon cancer is one of the    
   most preventable. But, it is the second greatest killer of men and    
   women, right behind (no pun intended) heart disease and breast cancer.   
      
     It's too bad we can't use the gas afterwards in our vehicles.    
   Otherwise, I'd get a pallet of Bush's Baked Beans, ask Duke for   
   the secret formula, and tell OPEC what they can do with their gas   
   prices.    
      
     But, the abdominal pain from diverticulitis is worse than a woman's   
   monthly cycle.    
      
     Just before my wife and I got married, she had to have a colonoscopy   
   done. When I went to pick her up, they thought her married name was   
   what her maiden name was, and when they addressed me as that, I said   
   "Not quite". When she talked to her Mom (who's black, and her Dad is   
   white...but they're both a couple of nuts ), she said "I'll bet you   
   didn't think you had a son that looked like him!!" .   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Home Alone is when you can poop with the door open.   
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