Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> Just got out of surgery for a failed ankle.

I'm really sorry to hear of your problem, Mike, but, in that you already
have it, make the best of it.

Several years ago I broke my leg and ankle (a story in itself) and it
was winter here in northern Maine.  My ankle was in an ortho splint and
I was on crutches.  My wife and I were just leaving the checkout stand
at the local Wal*Mart and she was a few feet ahead of me.  I yelled out
loudly, "Please don't leave me again ... it's so hard to walk home on
the ice!"  A number of people did turn and look ... heheheheheh

Mike