Steve B. In answer to your post (Its Dead around here), it was almost Dead around here too.
I've had a kind of bad past week, started Monday when they called from the Cardiac Rehab Therapy, where I go three times a week rebuilding my heart after the close call I had on a heart attack. They told me I couldn't come back because they were getting a bad reading when I was exercising and call my Doctor immediately. My Cardiologist scheduled me for a stress test next week so I just went on about my business.
Tuesday 2:00 am I wake up with lower stomach pain which I fought off and on all week and it continuously got worse. Friday Morning I go to ER at 6:00 am and spend the day in the ER getting test, after many doses of Narcotics the pain lets up, finally by late afternoon they determine its my Gall bladder and I need an immediate operation, except they can't operate as they don't think my heart will stand it. After a couple of Cardiologist confers they decide to give me a chemical stress test which takes time to get scheduled. Got first part of stress done late Friday night and other two scheduled early Saturday morning with surgery to follow immediately if I pass the stress test.
Wake up early Saturday morning and feel pretty good with all the dope in me, sit up a minute and when I laid back down a pain hit me in the right shoulder like someone was standing there hitting me with a sledge hammer. I ring the nurses and tell them I think I'm having a Heart Attack, after a bunch of test they tell me it’s not a Heart Attack but something called Phantom pain coming from the Gall bladder, it sure fooled me.
Finally got on to the Chemical Stress test, don't recommend that to the faint hearted, (a little pun there). Passed the Stress test and they took me right into the operating room where the heart worked good for a two hour operation where they found my Gall bladder had died some time ago and was completely full of Gangrene. The body is pretty smart though as it built a wall around the Gangrene to keep it from the other body parts to protect you, in my case it saved me but a lot of people don't have that Guardian angle on their shoulder. Don't know why I have been so lucky, twice in the past year but I sure appreciate it.
Anyway its not dead around here just slowed down for awhile, I’ll come back later to tell how I’m doing on the Cat 0 3-point hitch.