An Early Christmas Present

To appease "The Madge" I subjected myself to a colonoscopy on Wednesday. If you don't know what this procedure is, it's placing a garden hose into an orifice on you body, blowing you up with 135 PSI of air, taking a bunch of pictures and snipping little things called "polyps". You then have to sit around while the nurses stand next to you encouraging flatulence (commonly known as blowing the bugle or passing wind). This is not a pleasant experience nor does it help reduce global warming. Well anyway my Wednesday was not a nice day, but it turned out to be one of the best as less than a half a mile away was a good friend Dave Calonico who was having a triple bypass. This operation came as a BIG BIG surprise. He was having a cardiac catheterization and the doctors came at and told his wife"Kathy" that were going to schedule him for Quadruple bypass surgery. Now here is a guy that exercises, eats all the right foods, occasionally has a cigar, watches his weight and is physically active, you see what that stuff can do to you? It turned out that he required a triple bypass and he is 100% OK and on the road to recovery, that was my early Christmas gift.

Dave and Kathy

Dave after his surgery, I think he is still anesthetized