Nothing Glorious Nothing

Dear Brandy,

Whew I had a close call there! I just had a surgery and they removed an infection out of my lung, sorry I haven’t been up to see you but I should be better by next weekend, I know it’s been three straight weekends I haven’t been there, I miss ya and I will be up either Saturday or Sunday.

My sisters and brother were able to see Brand all the weekends I was out, yet another advantage of there being five brothers and sisters, if I had checked out with lung cancer which the consensus seemed to be, Brandy would have been well cared for by whomever was left. My buddy Jim Collins who lives near Winston dropped him off some cokes and smokes this past week and said Brandy was smiling and polite, as always.

This hanging around watching TV and doing nothing is pretty damned cool.

Nothing glorious nothing.

I think I cleaned out my jeep in the last two weeks, that's it. What is the best thing about not working? Nobody pisses you off. My dog and cats have not pissed me off even once in the two weeks I have been racked up. Each day you wake up ready to rock and it's a beautiful day and you're happy to be alive and ten minutes into your work day, some clown has said something to piss you off. Or even worse, some dummy has done nothing to hack you off, it's just the sight of them.

Still, I creak out of bed like an old, old man, my back is still sore as crap, so is my side and so is my lung. Those pain pills sure do the trick, I slip two down my throat with a little water from the faucet and in twenty minutes, I am young and beautiful, not old and sore. They are vicodins and I only have two doses left so I will be on my own by Tuesday morning, **gulp**. And I don’t care what anyone says, I have a big golf tournament at Duke next Monday, I am playing in this tournament because last year I shot a 91 and I have a score to settle with myself.

I should be able to beat that score fresh out of lung surgery, hobbling with a cane and using only a seven iron.

I can see why people get hooked on these pain pills, no hangover, no apparent changes to your personality and they make you happy! No wonder they are highly addictive. I had these pills when I was passing those g*****ed kidney stones last year and I didn’t get hooked on them then, shouldn’t be a problem from this surgery either.

I don’t think.