Thanks for the post GEO and the responses so far. Just spent 8 more days in the hospital bringing the total to 423 days spent in the hospital the past 4 years. My surgeon is looking at a MAJOR surgery as early as December that will either fifx my current problem which is I can't eat or drink anything by mouth, everything has to go thru my feeding tube in my stomache or the surgery itself will kill me. I was ready to quit and come home last Thur morning and give up but with my wife and 3 kids, 2 older daughters and a 5 yr old boy, it is hard to do. Planning on going thru with the surgery and can only hope that it will work. Still having to pack my open wound that will heal up just in time to be cut on again and this upcoming surgery will require a 12 inch cut in the middle and another on each side of 8-10 inches. Maybe I can get a FNF trip into Dale early Dec before the surgery, maybe we can get a FNF get together and I can meet a lot of these guys that have been praying for me all these years. I have even considered posting and offering to head up a FNF get together but there is no guarantee that I won't be in the hospital when the day comes. Thanks again for the thoughts and prayers.