Thursday, December 4, 2008

No picture today. Politcal unrest is over.

They did get rid of the old Prime Minister. They do this here every once in a while. It all happened just in time for the King's birthday. How convenient, and actually, how obliging for someone side to "give." Who knows who was right?

The story here yesterday was that they wouldn't be able to reopen the airport(s) until the 15 of Dec. That might affect me still because my flight is on the 17th, early. They're having to make sure the airport is safe by international standards.

Today, the doctor told me he was going to postpone my surgery till 4:00 PM., tomorrow, Friday. I was pretty happy about that. But then he called my hotel in the afternoon and changed it back again. So I have to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow AM. Hope I can sleep, otherwise, it won't take much anaesthetic to put me out. That idea kinds scares me. But I hear that statistically, surgeons and their assistants do quite a lot better in the morning when they are presumably fresh.

I met another American guy here in his office this morning. This guy was young and strong, but he had the same procedure 2 weeks ago from the same doc. He said it's all gone very well. He'd had the same procedure on his other shoulder some years back, at home in the U.S. and said it wasn't as good as this one (so far). What's up, why should he have blown two shoulders at the tender age of 35ish? I think he may have been a soldier, or otherwise shoots a rifle a lot.

OK, signing off.

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