FrankT said:

All these complications and surgeries... it's not adding up to something life-threatening, is it? :(

I thought my previous not-so subtle avoidance of the question might be enough, but to sate any interest, yes it is something I have been battling on and off for years, and yes it is often terminal, and I'm not really going to go into any more detail on public forums, other than to say I have nearly as many scans of myself as I do of Star Wars. I am currently recovering, there will be more to come, but we take it one thing at a time, and every day any of us is still on the planet and able to look around us and be with family or friends (even ones we have never 'met') is a good day.

Now back to our scheduled programming.