hi all and thank you for your prayers,
i am logged in at the hospital on the laptop,
i am doing ok had a scare this morning with a bad bleed but it eased up before they did another transfusion,
during surgery i lost too much blood so they did a transfusion then.
i cannot swallow yet ,,, trying but cant. will get there i am sure ... cannot talk very well yet cuz of the pain but using a pen and paper smile
have a splitting migraine so i want to get right off of here but wanted to give you an update, not sute what day they will let me go home - at first they said today now they said maybe tomorrow or monday ... so no idea

thanks all and take care. will send another update another time.

Rita - Age 44
wife, mother of 4 - ages 3,16,21,24 & grandma to 1
(R upper) Maxillectomy 8/8/08 - UW / Seattle, WA.

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"Those who think by the inch and speak by the yard, should be kicked by the foot."