My daughter had emergency surgery Saturday night.
Her fiance called from Orlando, where he has had to be for work. She is in Madison.
She had a piece of metal stuck in her throat. At first, they though it might be a shard of metal from opening a can with a can opener. But it does not look like that. They thought i could have been a piece of steel wool, but she uses a plastic scrubber, and does not have any of that in her house. It looks like a staple from a food package. I think the food industry is getting more lax all the time.
And she is a musician. She plays the flute. She has two concerts coming up in two weeks.
She came through the surgery just fine, and is resting at home with her two cats. We went to Madison and made sure she had everything she needed, plenty of soft foods, and all her meds. The doc said she is doing well. She can even play her two concerts.
Scary times.
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So glad she can play her concerts.
The kitties will take great care of her. 
conditions. I can't even imagine how scary that must have been.
Having lived on flat land all my life, I had a rude awakening when my husband & I drove to Gatlinburg, TN, one November. I had never drove in the mountains before. Add sleet to that inexperience & you can imagine how my knees were knocking while driving those dark two-lane highways -- & narrow dirt roads, once we were on our way up to our cabin.
By our third or fourth day there, we decided to visit the Cherokee village & casino on top of this huge mountain in nearby North Carolina. I started out overly cautious & slow, getting to the side whenever possible to allow faster traffic behind me to pass. But by the time I was about 3/4 of the way to the top, I was eating potato chips with one hand & driving with the other!
Looking back now: 