Hi,

Thanks again to everyone for your concern. Just wanted to pass this along. It is an excerpt from the email theMadpainter sent me about her upcoming surgery. This sounds a bit more touch and go than I originally supposed. Naturally I am very concerned.

...Friday Morning I check into the hospital and will have surgery that morning for the Cerebral Aneurysm Coiling...and if all that goes well it is possible I will be home between mon & Wed sometime.....This is not a simple surgery and has it's risks...there is a death rate with this one so I am aprehensive to say the least...but out of the few proceedures available for this kind of aneurysm it seems like it has the best chances....there are numerous things that can go wrong before, during and after the surgery...but yet it has the best rate of all the techniques so I hope all goes well there....