First I would like to say I had a very nice Christmas, best one in years spent with my sister and brother and his mother and father and other sisters, my sister carried on the tradition of giving away a portable drinking mug filled with pistachios something my mother used to do every year and that really means a lot because I always looked forward to getting that.

Okay last Sunday everything was going okay had eaten dinner Jimmy's had left and I was sitting down to a nice quiet evening of video gaming and watching TV and maybe talking with Xander we still had half a movie to watch that I downloaded from a bit torrent "The Maze Runner" but all of a sudden I started getting a pain in my stomach lower part of my chest area just under the rib cage.

And it was getting worse first I thought it was acid indigestion so I took a couple of offbrand Rolaids did not touch this pain so I tried a couple of chewable Pepto-Bismol tablets and 10 min. later I was calling the EMS. My lower abdomen was his heart is a brick when they got to my house, and we started off to the hospital the ambulance attendant took my EKG six times when up to the front of the ambulance three times and talked with the driver next thing I know all of the lights were on and they upgraded my condition from whatever they start you out with and put me on critical it seems that the EKG was coming back with a blip on one of the leads which she checked several times she started two IVs and I could tell that the ambulance was moving pretty fast, they got me into the emergency room ran right into one of the reception areas and that's when the real fun began.

If you can call this fun, by now if you touched my stomach there was no movement very dense and hard and very, very, very painful, and all of the checking and poking and everything they determined that I had a intestinal blockage so they gave me two doses of Delighted which I really wasn't feeling anything after that, checked me and him got me into a room the next morning or late afternoon I really can't remember the timeframe but it was the next day they commence to putting a tube into my nose and believe me I hate it when they do that I've had that done four times before unsuccessfully but they got it in this time hooked me up to a vacuum and that remove the blockage, the bad thing was that I spent New Year's Eve and most of New Year's Day in the hospital, I do have to commend the people at Manatee Medical Hospital for having a very caring and knowledgeable staff, A very good friend Jimmy AKA Squeaky Bunny for just being there, as he has been in the past, and Xander for sending me all of the voicemails I listened to all of them I am sorry I could not reply back to you or get a hold of you while I was in the hospital.


So I would like to say "I hope everybody is having a good new year" I know I don't post a lot but I hope that your new year is going to go 10,000 times better than mine did..