Hey you guys, I'm back!!!
Still pretty weak and tired, but I had to stop by tonight and say "hi" and see what you've been up to in my absense. Its going to take me a few days to get caught up and back up to speed again, so forgive me for not hanging around real long tonight. But I wouldn't be able to rest if I didn't come by and tell you that I've really missed all of you.
I've got to share one story with you tonight but there will be more coming!
You've seen pictures of what they call Silverback Gorilla's on television ... right? Big, huge, black, gigantic monsters whose heads kinda come to a peak on top and have massive arms and shoulders.
Okay. So I'm in that stoopid hospital bed with the sheet pulled up over my head and I'm
vaping some Cookie Bomb and enjoying all the Michael Jackson drugs they'd given me. I had tangles of hoses, tubes, electrodes, unknown wires and other assorted fun stuff attached to my body and I wasn't going anywhere. They'd seen to that.
So I'm sitting there
vaping my Cookie Bomb around two in the morning and singing with Little Richard who was coming through the ear phones of my iPod when suddenly, and with no warning, my sheets were ripped off of me and there in the middle of the night, in near total darkness ... was a Silverback Gorilla.
I don't know for sure, but I'd just about bet that my scream could be heard away out in the far reaches of the hospital parking lot!
The Gorilla was holding some kind of a box in one hand and a huge needle attached to a syringe in the other and it uttered one word and one word only.
Blood.
That's all it said.
Blood.
And with that it jammed that needle into my arm right there on the inside of the right elbow.
That scream probably wasn't as loud as the one when I first saw the Gorilla, but I think it produced the desired results which were an expression of the pain and fear I was experiencing.
Having extracted these vital fluids from my body the monster ambled off with a quick wave and the words ... "be back."
Lesson Learned: I had always thought that pulling the sheets over your head would protect one from the Boogey Man.
It doesn't work.
The monster got me anyhow.
My advice ... stay healthy and stay out of hospitals! There's some danged cute, sweet Nurses there ... but there's monsters too.
I'm soooo glad to be back with you guys and I love all of you! I wasn't able to have my laptop with me, but now that I'm catching up again, thank you for your phone calls, e-mails, Visitor Messages and most of all your prayers and kind thoughts!
TT