I feel you on both of these. 'Nuff said.

>
>3) Do I Really Need All These Organs?
>
>Here's the big one: a week from next Tuesday, I'm scheduled to undergo
>a sleeve gastrectomy
>procedure. This has actually been in the works for literally
>years, but it's been repeatedly complicated by long lead times,
>referral expirations, the retirement of the first surgeon my case was
>assigned to before anything could be accomplished, and the complete
>shutdown of one of the associated supporting medical practices Because
>COVID, Allegedly. It's been a tangled, uncertain mess, which is one
>of the reasons why I haven't mentioned it before, as far as I can
>remember.
>
>But, well, I'm in the pipe now. I'm on day five of the 14-day pre-op
>liquid diet, and am low-key hoping to come out on the wrong side of a
>zombie apocalypse so I have a solid reason to kill strangers and eat
>them.
>

Just in case we don't have an apocalypse, here's hoping that you're better off for the process.

Peter Eng
--
For what I pay you, I get excellent results.