[SFDXA] Health Update

[Randy Shirley]

Howdy DXers,

As most know, I've been struggling with some health issues lately.

I had my surgery Monday.  It was, in my opinion, the procedure from hell.

It was a venogram procedure, which is an x-ray procedure where the 
vascular surgeon injects a contrast dye into one of your main deep veins 
in the foot area to visualize the veins, to check for blood clots, 
blockages, or other vein problems.  That's the easy part. Then, if there 
are problems found, they insert a wire into the vein and attempt to 
remove any blockages, or widen any narrowness found in the veins.

They only gave me a Motrin for pain and a Valium to help relax me.  It 
didn't help much.  The problem was that the vein he needed to use, was 
located in the center of the worst ulcer on my ankle! They scrapped and 
scrapped to find the vein, then started pushing the wire in...  NOT 
fun!  Then after about 15 minutes the doc says "OK, this is going to 
hurt a bit now!"  "Whatcha mean "now" and "a bit?"  Well, that happened 
again and finally it was all over. They were soaking towels with blood.  
After about 45 minutes of recovery, they finally halfway stopped the 
bleeding, and I was allowed to sit up.

After 3 hours of sleep the first night and a few more Tuesday night.  I 
am finally able to sleep again.  The site still bleeds, but it's slowly 
getting better.  I can only spend about 30 minutes at a time sitting or 
standing, then I have to elevate the leg for a few hours.

It's been tough but, hopefully the blood flow will improve and the 
ulcers will heal.

Unfortunately SFDXA has taken a back seat during this.

Thanks for all of the good will and prayers received.

Very 73,
Randy N4QV
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