Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am back on the air – although not at full strength. A week ago Friday night (May 4th) I had a severe bout of pain in a remote Turkish town called Selcuk. After the fact, we seem to have determined that it was the passing of a kidney stone but unfortunately it came on the heels of a case of the Turkish version of “Montezuma’s Revenge” and so my entire system was “off-center”. Flying home was eventful, but we made it.
I have been to see my doctor three times between Tuesday and Friday and we have done a CT Scan and caught a small kidney stone on film; we know that one of them has been responsible for some of this. But given the duration of the pains and the varying intensities, I probably am working on my second Kidney stone in ten days and possibly my third.
If you have never passed a kidney stone, give thanks to whatever Supreme Being you worship in whatever manner you find appropriate. If you deny the existence of a Supreme Being, then knock on wood. This is NOT something you want to experience for yourself.
I’ll be writing next week but I can’t promise that I’ll write every day because I’m not sure that there isn’t another of those little buggers sitting in my kidney waiting to take a grand journey.
Later…