My best wishes to you too, Bookchick, for a speedy recovery! Use your current "down time" to enumerate all the places in Italy you need to see/experience again as soon as possible. That should fill you with positive energy and colorful images!

Bookchick,

I hope that you'll soon be posting again- about another trip to Italy!

I wish you all the best.

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot

The same can be said of our "Bookchick".

Godspeed with Recovery!

D_T

Sending best wishes and hopes that you are able to spend this time catching up on some great books (travel books included, of course.)

Keeping this at the top for BC!

Bookchick, may your recovery be quick, and may all your travel dreams all become reality!

Oh, BC! Hope all is going well and that you'll be back at your computer soon. I miss you!

Carissima Bookchick. Un boca a'lupo! Abracco forte!

Thank you very much Karen for hosting the GTG. I enjoyed seeing some old faces and meeting new ones.

Forry, cross posted to the wrong thread.

My Dear Friends,
Thank you all so very much for the prayers and good wishes! What a delightful post for me!

I was discharged from the hospital yesterday. Surgery went very well with minimal blood loss. I have a return visit to the surgeon's office Tuesday for removal of staples. So far, so good!

I will be recuperating at home for some time, as the surgeon wrote me "off work" and out of the office until April 26th. I figure by that time, in my part of America, it really will be spring, and I'll want to be anywhere BUT inside my house! Naturally I have stockpiled a good many books to read during my convalescence.

The stay in the hospital was not too bad, and I have to say that IV sedation paired with a spinal anesthesia is a LOT easier on the body than general anesthesia, IMO.

Thanks again. I'm a little weak and walking a lot more slowly, but truly not in too much discomfort at all. And as I get stronger, I promise, I will be here more often.

Best Wishes to All,
BC

Just coming back home after some time in Fla. Glad to hear you're out of the hospital. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Glad you are home again. I agree with you about spinal anesthesia being easier than general. Ten years ago I had a hysterectomy with spinal anesthesia, and it was much more comfortable to recover from.

Enjoy all the books and get lots of rest. Then you will soon be ready for a trip this summer!

I am concentrating hard on recovering from a back injury so I can travel again. I actually hurt my back from too much walking on the cobblestones of Rome!

Ahhh, now things are getting back to normal!
Be a good patient BC and let someone else wait on you and take care of you!
Send me book reports :)

BIGHUG ((F))

I spoke to her today. She sounded real good and is in good spirits.

Glad that you are back home BC..Take care" e non ti scordare di noi.."
Ciao.
Kismet.

Welcome back, dear Bookie :)

Bookchick, I've always enjoyed your posts. Glad to hear you're on the mend!

good news to hear.
good times in the future
and lots more loving to do
and the mandala for it all for you.

Hi Bookchick--hope u continue to feel better and are getting stronger each day. Everyone raves about your Italy reports--but I loved your last Paris report--u did a great job on that.

Best of health to u and hope your off on another trip soon.

Take care,
Robyn France