Darren

[Guest guest]

The surgery is on Tuesday the 16th. I have to be there at 8am

Monday morning for a 5 hout gtt--yuck. thats when I will meet th

surgeon, Dr. Rilo, who harvest, isolates and implants the islet

cells. I have heard a lot about him and looking forward to it. Dr,

s is the surgeon who will remove it amongst other things then

put it all back together.

Who isolated your cells? Sutherland, then somebody else was

finishing up with your abdomen; there is a lot to put back together.

Do you or had you already had a follow up with Sutherland. I have

to stick around to see the s in the clinic before I can leave

OH. How long were you in the hospital all together?

Thats great going back to work without much difficulty. Any problem

with dt's. I take a lot of demerol and I have withdrawn once before

and it wasn't very pleasant and I weaned myself. My job can be very

physically demanding. Plus I wont be able to take a small amount of

any narcotic in my line of work. So I need to be really pain free

to go back to work. How is your pain going?

I expect to get a lot of rest in the hotel, certainly not the

hospital you are right about that. I happy Thanksgiving and dont

forget to eat extra portions of dressing and gravy.

warmly,

Chrissy