Tuesday, September 5, 2000

Well, Dad had his surgery today. he went in at 5:00am this morning to Des Peres Hospital. He went in to have five vertebrae fused and a steel rod inserted along side his spine. The surgury was only supposed to take four hours, but ended up taking an extra two. It turns out the surgeon found more damage to his spine and ended up really giving him the ole’ roto rooter routine! Dad is resting now, and I will visit again tomorrow. He should be home by the end of the week. After about six weeks of physical therapy, he should be able to go back to work.

Charlie pointed out that my neato little pop-up stats boxes don’t pop for Netscape. That’s frustrating. Well, I went ahead and did a bit of javascript to display the info in the status bar at the bottom of the browser when the mouse hovers over the link. I won’t be able to try it w/ Mozilla until tomorrow, so I will have to wait and see….