Welcome to Gaia! ::

Hello? Anyone?

You're welcome... and yet, I don't know why you're thanking me for inviting you to what is now a life-less guild. XD

I LIVE AGAIN! I finally have internet at my home so I can stay up for pointless hours on end doing nothing! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Have fun, Jitio!

What are you up to, Loki? And when was it you said you'd be in Naperville?

Hey...been...really busy since March...(Long story short, Hospital ******** up a test and I ended up having a stroke, had some minor short term memory trouble since then)

Went up to the Mayo clinic after Memorial day, turns out I need to go back into the hospital for Open Heart Surgery (which will be taking place in the 2nd week in September)


In better news, next week I'll have the pleasure of entertaining a pair of Students from Tokyo. (Not staying with me, but I'm sure they won't want to hang out with a bunch of 60 yrs old women)

21, I have Pulmonic Stenosis, which if a fancy way to say, my pulmonary valve leaks (That's the valve that pumps blood to the lungs so they can be re-oxygenated). Had this condition since I was born truthfully. While I'm opened up, they're also gonna close my PFO, which for those that don't know, is a small hole between the left and right side, and quite common in people (1 in 4, and people live normal lives without realizing they have one).

But, irregardless of that, to say the least, I won't be taking a fall term this year. This is due to the fact that, I'll be up in Rochester Minnesota (Mayo Clinic) for a week to recover from surgery, then I can return here (by car or air) for a whole more 6-8 weeks of recovery/rehab. I won't be able to drive for 4 of those.

Upside is that since I'm having the surgery up at the Mayo Clinic, and the surgeon apparently does these twice a week, so on the surgical end I'm not entirely worried. (Granted, I was the 1 in 100,000 to suffer a stroke of some sort due to a bubble study, which btw I didn't need).

Truthfully, a fair part of me doesn't want to go through with this, hell the surgery is the second week in September. I know I'm only going to get more anxious the closer I get to it...(Hell I might just take a week off from work PRIOR to it just to relax myself >.>, unless of course I get to go on a trip I've been wanting to go on).

Most annoying bit is that essentially for 5 weeks I can't drive (tho strangely a week after surgery I can fly back). That and returning to work just in time for the holiday season >.<. Keep in mind Reko, this is the second time I've had Open Heart Surgery...(tho its the first we could plan for).

2 months old.