Off and running

Howdy folks! If you're here I hope you're looking for info on the Great Fraternal Kidney Transfer of 2004. I'll try to use this as a tool to keep far-flung friends and family informed as to the latest.

The basics are as follows: the surgery is scheduled for December 29, and they want me out there a week early. So I leave on the 22nd and it'll be Christmas in Michigan with my brother and niece. You could do worse. Phoebe will fly out on the 28th and back on the 2nd, by which time I ought to be out of the hospital and recovering at Doug's. Within a week or two (or maybe three) I will hopefully be back myself.