The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

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Hey ya Lucky.  Hope you're feeling better real soon.  You have a successful surgery, you hear?  While you're convalescing here are photos from some gardens I visited this year.  (Who needs paradise when we can visit gardens?)

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*squeals YOU KNOW ME WELL!!!

I Love them!!! Thank you! I'll come look at them again after surgery I'm sure! Thank you for my own little moment of happiness, to visit at any time. ♡

I'll keep you guys updated once the deed is done. It's not supposed to be until the week after this upcoming week--this week I need to get a transfusion at some point so I have blood for surgery. And more antibiotics pumped into me! I'm scared. Usually I am not such a big baby, but this time last year I just had the opposite of this surgery and that was hARd. This one will be easier but I'm so immunosuppressed and anemic it makes me squeamish. Oh well, it'll go how it goes, yeah? 

There is good reason to feel afraid or at least apprehensive.  Putting my well being into someone else's hands has always been hard for me, it does make one feel helpless like a big baby.  (I'm the one who cannot sleep in a car while someone else is driving.)  But fortunately there are doctors who can do what you cannot, and that can make a positive difference for you.  Looking forward to hearing that you are better and safer soon.  I'll be away for about a week around the eclipse and I'm not sure what kind of internet connection will be available at my aunt's country house in South Carolina.  

Here is a set of photos from a tropical style garden in San Jose I visited with a group last year.  There are more sets there than you can shake a stick at.  There is a button on that page that looks like a monitor with an arrow in the middle in the upper right corner which will make the photos play as a full screen slideshow.

Tropical garden pics

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Hey ya Lucky.  Hope you're feeling better real soon.  You have a successful surgery, you hear?  While you're convalescing here are photos from some gardens I visited this year.  (Who needs paradise when we can visit gardens?)

Paradise literally means garden. The Persians believed their heaven was the perfect garden.

We have a winner.  I figured someone would know that but I wasn't sure who.