Spinal Surgery - part II

Hi guys.

Thanks for the boost.

It is 2200 (that's ten p.m. for you civilians) and I've been home
since about 1400. But I can't tell you if the surgery was a success
or not. I didn't see the physician after the procedure was done and
they used a general instead of a local, so I didn't get to participate
in the action.

Frankly, I'm still doped up. If I wake up screaming I'll know the
procedure didn't work. As will the neighbors. But I've got my hopes
up.

If the procedure WAS a success it means the PAIN will be locked back
in its cave. And if the PAIN is removed from the equation, it will
allow them to use more aggressive measures against the tumor. And
that means there's a good chance I will be able to recover much of the
strength I've lost. And THAT means I can get at those engines, and
the fuel tank and the umpty-leben ribs for the DBK's tapered wing, and
finishing that Siler lock that's suppose to snap fire in that replica
Hawkins I've been fooling with for the past... too many years.

Lotsa stuff like that.

But mostly it means they'll have a better chance of CONTROLLING the
tumor... of preventing its spread... of buying me a few more months
not only on this planet but in the air above it.

-R.S.Hoover