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Subject: [LMB] health bulletin
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:20:16 -0500
From: Lois McMaster Bujold
Hi All --
My plans for May were abruptly re-arranged by a perforated appendix,
hideously complicated by the docs taking an extra seven days to figure
out my diagnosis because, it turns out, my appendix was in a
non-standard location. I'm just back from the hospital yesterday,
"resting uncomfortably" as they say, planning to hide out from everyone
who wants me to do things for them. Biggest bummer was missing my
daughter's college graduation, which is taking place today out in
Portland, Oregon, without me.
I'll basically not be up for much till I get the drainage tube out,
Thursday I hope. The one good piece of all this was that the clever
surgeon was able to do a laparoscopic appendectomy, so all I have to
heal are three little holes, like on a bowling ball. The surgeon gave
me great pictures of the operation-in-progress, taken internally; I'm
considering whether to be bloody-minded enough to scan them and put them
on my MySpace page, later.
And after all that, I only lost three pounds. Seems unfair.
Please do not send cards, letters, food, flowers, e-mail, or
anything else to which I would be socially obliged to respond. But
while I'm on the subject of gastroenterology, now is a good time to
remind folks about my niece Molly McMaster's Colon Club and Colandar,
still available for 2008:
http://www.colonclub.com/index.html
http://www.colonclub.com/colondar.html
My brother tells me they are planning to do the photo shoot for the
2009 Colandar up at their place on Lake George very soon.
Ta, L. (slowly catching up.)
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Does anyone know if she has health insurance? My friend's son had appendix troubles that put him into the hospital for five days, and it would have been $50,000 without insurance. I hope she recovers without that stress.
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And after all that, I only lost three pounds. Seems unfair.
Ha! I totally understand that one!
May 18 2008, 20:14:46 UTC 4 years ago
Wes and RJ
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May 20 2008, 01:20:54 UTC 4 years ago Edited: May 20 2008, 01:22:45 UTC
May 19 2008, 17:55:01 UTC 4 years ago
Anonymous
May 31 2008, 13:49:38 UTC 4 years ago
Horizon cover up on dendarii.com
If someone who is actually a member here could copy this post into its own topic, I would be grateful. But in the meantime, this piggyback:Hi all --
The just-completed cover by artist Julie Bell for _The Sharing Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon_, due out February 2009 from Eos, has now been added to the TSK covers page on dendarii.com (thank you, Mike Bernardi!) It's at the bottom of the collection: scroll down.
http://www.dendarii.co.uk/Covers/America
I'm very pleased with it. People, horses, and landscape all look like themselves, and it's a tolerably-accurately represented scene from the actual book. I'm also happy with how the progression of the covers reflects the progression of the themes of the book -- from the formation of a couple, through the formation of a family (for a certain value of "family") through the formation of a community. All right, so the community is represented on the _Horizon_ cover by the trailing mob on the road in the background -- Julie was calling them "the Little People" -- but at least they are *there*.
I had actually suggested some sort of a pastiche of this famous frontier painting as a jumping-off point for the _Horizon_ cover:
http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collect
but it was apparently felt that the frontal-facing pose had been "used up" by the _Passage_ cover. We retained a sense of the Appalachian-like landscape, though, which makes me happy.
Ta, L.