The QR&D procedure was fairly uneventful other than the “being Steve” IV challenges (third time was a charm!) Herbie had his first alcohol treatment and then they had Steve roll around in a couple positions to fully coat the chassis. The tailpipe (drain) will stay in until Friday. Hopes/plans are for fluid drainage to stop almost immediately prompting effective rust and disintegration of Herbie. If so, that’ll be the end of the Herbster.

If Herbie is particularly resilient then we’ll need a second alcohol treatment on Friday. Maybe it’ll help if I consume a little alcohol in the next few days? I say…”whatever it takes!”  🙂

My pain is fairly minimal now and mostly related to the drain (at least until the alcohol coating has a little time to impact things.) I’ll still be taking it fairly easy for a few days but hopes are to get a little closer to normalcy.

Many thanks for all the prayers, thoughts and actions that you are sharing with me, the family and the medical community. They continue to lift us up, helping make this situation so much brighter.

More news on Friday…. Here’s hoping you have a wonderful week ahead!

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For those who like comics, these few had me stifling laughter while waiting to go up for the QR&D procedure:

• Baby Blues – boring to be a grownup http://babyblues.com/comics/february-5-2018/
• WUMO – contracting to build Rome http://wumo.com/wumo/2018/02/01
• Dilbert – business intelligence? http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-02-05