I had emergency surgery on Saturday....

[Moostache]

33. Glad to hear that you are OK...lucky, many people have died from less.

The two things (among many) that we accept in America that drive me crazy are:

1) That Health Care is still viewed as a for-profit privilege - a sacrilege to me
2) That Education is not provided beyond High School - an embarrassment to us all

Good luck in you recovery...a similar event happened to my grandmother and it took my brother and the fire department breaking in her door to get her out of the bath tub and to a hospital. Unfortunately for Grandma, that was the last time she was able to see her house, though she is still with us - albeit in assisted living and at great expense monthly for her care. She will run out of money sometime next year and we have already had to sell her house and car and most of her possessions to extend her that far. Beyond that, we haven't discussed it much as a family because of other, more pressing health care concerns for my mother.

Its been heart-breaking for the family since Grandma is in late stage Alzheimer's and cannot understand what has happened to her or recognize any of us and Mom is now run out of chemotherapy options to keep her persistent cancer at bay. Grandma's plight seems almost too cruel to bear at times, but I am extremely thankful for my father's health insurance and Medicare that have allowed my mother an extra 12 years of life that her mother never had (the same cancer that took my mother's mom is taking her from us as well). I cannot imagine the heartbreak for families that have lost loved ones due to a lack of insurance or money.

Best wishes to you for a full recovery.