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Well, time,rest, and the ministrations of my lovely lady have taken their toll and I am doing much better now. I am no longer on the wound vac, although the incision site continues to require daily maintenance. I've been exercising, both with resistance and aerobic training, in an effort to replace the tremendous amount of muscle mass I lost following the emergency surgery. Seriously -- I was down 40 pounds! Not a diet I'd recommend, however. Oh, and I was on a liquid diet for about ten days due to a kink in my lower intestine, a "complication" of the surgery (sometimes it seemed like it would never end). Fortunately, I am back on solid foo

Well, the "routine surgery" I was going in for went south and I damn near died. Seriously, I was in the hospital eighteen days, four of them in intensive care. I had one emergency surgery, which was one more than I should have had. Now, all my muscle has atrophied, I can barely walk, and am generally weak as a kitten. I have an open wound on my stomach and a wound vac running constantly. On the plus side, I am not dead, and probably won't die anytime soon. Oh, and I'm finally home.

This is what got printed inside my annual Christmas card, which can be seen at this http://ministan.deviantart.com/art/Christmas-Card-for-08-106628843 ---- Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and best wishes for the coming new year from Bob & Kathryn's household! 2008 while not a tremendously busy year was, overall, a good one, marking our second year together.  Things are still going quite well between us and we're very happy that we found each other! Bob continued his job working as an editor for the online publisher Arcamax (www.arcamax.com).  It was a banner year, with sales exceeding all expectations as more and more people seemed to ge