LOL

I know the feeling.  I still occasionally have to say to Charlie "What part
of I'm deaf don't you understand?"

He forgets.  Can't remember why I can't answer the phone, call an
electrician, call DirecTV cause the box in the living room doesn't work etc.

He is really truly convinced some where inside that I could really hear if I
really wanted to.

We were getting better till I got the implant, and its like being back to
stage one.  Just because I can now carry on a conversation with it on,
doesn't mean I can hear anything if its off.

He's a love though.  Will do anything for me.  Sometimes.

Jo

lol, yeah, i told mike he's too used to me being fairly self-sufficient.
for
a while i felt guilty about making him stay closer to home, even though i
didn't really need that much, but i talked myself out of the guilt.  ;)
he's
my security blanket and he'll just have to live with that!  lol

****y'know, i've had soooo many surgeries, since i was 23, that i,
personally, tend to minimize the potentiality for post-op dangers (even in
relatively minor operations), days later.  i have to force myself to
remember--- it was ten days after my first car wreck surgery that i suddenly
had an outrageous fever spike, that even my nurse was astonnished by and
couldn't believe the thermometer (she rechecked it 3 times with different
electronic thermometers and then, with the old fashioned kind).  it was
three days later, after a "very minor" surgery, that a blood clot broke
loose from the wound site and stopped my grandmother's heart, in the 1970s.

****so, you are intuitively very wise and spot-on in wanting and needing
mike to be close at hand, for a security blanket.  post-op doesn't mean that
we've crossed into some invisble safety zone.  it just means post-op.  and
post-op requires watchfulness.

after watching some of the world poker tour on tv sat. he started playing on
partypoker.net which was advertised a lot on the tv show.  he's been having
fun i think, though he still looks forward to playing at soaring eagle when
he can get there.  he comes from a card playing family - his vision of
heaven
includes pinochle with the family.

****<smile>  and at partypoker. net, he can join in the tourneys, if he has
the inclination to go for the gold.  i love pinochle!  butch and his sister
taught me that game and lots of variations--- i married a man from a card
plying family, too, as well as, coming from a card playing family myself.

kate