T - 5

We are Cosi's restaurant waiting for the bus. Kind of a cold, damp morning, but there is a good chance that we will get to NY before the rain.

I got a call from my friend Rosie (actually, Sr Rosie) last night. She had a knee replacement this week and called to give me an update. She said that she was still nauseous from the pain killers and the morphine made her itchy. I always associate morphine with WW-II movies. I imagine that a knee replacement is much more painful than a kidney removal. I think of a kidney removal as what John Wayne would call a "flesh wound" -- where he gets back on his horse and kills 20 more bad guys and is fully recovered by the next scene.

The good news is that they let here use her Blackberry the whole time in the hospital. She has only had it a short time, but is already addicted.

I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about packing and what to bring. We have four days before surgery that look like cold and rain, then two days in the hospital and then a week that could be much warmer weather. I also need loose fitting clothes -- I am not sure how long. Plus our electronic stuff -- computers, phones, kindles, iPods and the appropriate chargers. The whole thing reminds me of doing triathlons where you need to have your swim, bike and run stuff in the right transition areas before the race.

Tomorrow we will be at the hospital most of the day, so we will try to do some Twitter updates from our cell phones.