Well, I've been on vacation the last seven days, and it's been nice just chillin' around the house smoking my pipes, and hanging out on the forums, that was until the other day. I have been having an occasional pain that I had been writing off as a mild groin pull without giving it too much thought. Well, the ragweed has been very bad around here lately, and I had a huge sneezing fit, followed by abdominal discomfort. After a while, the pain was still bothering me, and I dicovered a bulge in my abdomin, so off to the emergency room I went. After a few hours waiting, I'm advised that I have a hernia, and need surgery to correct it. The Doctor sends me home with a referral to a surgeon, and I have an appointment to see him on the 19th of the month. I was told that i can't lift anything over 10 lbs before the surgery, and for 6 weeks afterwards. Now, for those of you that don't know, I'm an overnight stocker at Walmart, in the pet department, with lots of heavy lifting, so now when I return to work Saturday, I'll have to try to get them to put me on some kind of light duty work, whatever that might be. As if that wasn't bad enough, I now also have another toothache that flaired up this afternoon (makes it harder to enjoy a pipe since I do tend to clench a lot). This is not what I had in mind as a way to spend my last couple of days on vacation. Dang, I hate getting old, and it seems like I'm falling apart. Oh well, I guess that is what happens when you suffer from a condition called AGE. 8O