Re: Sen. Barack Obama:

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:00:02 -0400, Just Judy <SpamFreeJudy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:36:40 GMT, Dave Head <rally2xs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Do I want this to change? No way. I love it. I should be back to work
Monday, and I think that's pretty dang good for major surgery.

Glad you made it back to us, Dave.

I was worried that you'd taken off for other usenet scenes,
but, being an optimist, never considered that you'd been ill.

Stay well, dood,

Thanks. The particular thing that I had is reputed to not have any symptoms,
but I was fatigued for about the last 2 1/2 years. I just didn't have the
energy to do much of anything, including posting in other than
rec.autos.driving, my favorite. I have some more energy now - maybe I can get
here more often, rather than sitting in this chair and be too "tired" (really
fatigued) to do anything but listen to the TV (its the hated Fox News, so I
don't have to watch), and not have enough energy to really keyboard much. I
sat here and just went catatonic, for hours.

And, of course, there was a whale of a lotta people here that disagreed with
me, that had me killfiled, so posting here and getting no replies also kinda
got to be a drag.

Plus, sitting around the house, waiting for stuff to heal, I have a lotta time
for this. Might not continue, since I'm going back to work Monday.

Gotta go get another test in early July to make sure there's not something else
trying to kill me. The surgeon said he saw scars on my intestines when he was
poking around in there, and thought I had forgot to mention that I had had
appendicitis. I never had appendicities, to my knowledge, but do remember some
time in my life where I remember thinking to myself, "Damn, this is really
sore. I wonder if I have appendicitis. If it doesn't clear up pretty quick,
I'm going to the doctor." But it did clear up. Hey, maybe I _did_ have
appendicitis.

Oh, yeah, I was a little distracted and a bit busy with a 3 month tour in Iraq
last Nov, Dec, and Jan to work counter-IED stuff as a science and tech adviser
in Baghdad. Best job I ever had, except for the rocket attack and the other
near-daily explosions. Didn't realize, tho, that there was nasty stuff going
on in my body trying to kill me...
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