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MikeS

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No green beer this year for me!
« on: March 15, 2009, 08:32:41 am »
Headed into surgery tuesday morning, St Patty's Day, (retrosig approach) with Dr.'s Leonetti and Anderson at Loyola in Chicago.  Wish me luck and have a green beer for me!
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2009, 08:43:03 am »
Lots of prayers to you during your surgery!  Maybe they would be willing to put a green dye in your IV fluids? :)
 
No green beer for me either, I gave up alcohol for the Lenten Season.  What was I thinking?
 
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2009, 10:30:35 am »
Good luck, MikeS. 

I'm not a beer drinker, but perhaps I'll have a green whiskey in your honor  :D

I had my surgery with Battista/Kazan (Ear Institute of Chicago) so we must live somewhere around each other.

Jan
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2009, 10:57:53 am »
I will have a green tea....If i have one beer it will taste like another & proble have to get a bodyguard to hold me up sooo tea it is..
Damn!
lots of luck w/ your surgery.Irish eyes will be smilin' at cha! ;D
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2009, 01:35:49 pm »
Lime green Powerade for me, thanks. Mike, maybe you can wear green sunglasses in the hospital?  8)

Best wishes for the surgery.

Steve
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Hearing lasted a while, but left side is deaf now.
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2009, 01:55:48 pm »
I'll go for the green tea as well, but am sending best wishes for a successful surgery and speedy recovery.
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2009, 03:40:38 pm »
Mike:  Green beer is over-rated, anyway.  :)

Many good vibes and prayers will go with you on Tuesday (17th).  May your AN removal surgery be successful and your recovery, quick and complete.  :)
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2009, 06:44:59 pm »
Alright, ya' lightweights - if someone needs to have a green beer for Mike, I guess I'll have to be the one to do it.  It's quite a sacrifice on my part, but I like to do what I can to help out!   ;)

Mike, the luck of the Irish to you on surgery day!  Don't be alarmed if you see wee green folks as you drift off to sleep in the OR!

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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2009, 08:35:41 pm »
I'm in with Lori - I guess we are the big LUSHES in this group!!  Funny thing is that I really don't drink much...but I'll sure do this!!

Good luck and prayers for you Mike...try to keep a PEACEFUL heart until Tuesday!

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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2009, 09:28:59 pm »
Sorry you have to spend St. Paddy's Day in the hospital.  No fun.  But, next year that means you can have twice the green beer, 'cause you missed a year!  I think that's some old Irish tradition.  ;)

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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2009, 05:08:11 am »
Mike -

Good luck to you on Tuesday -- I'll gladly raise a pint of  green beer to you on St. Patrick's Day!  I'm wishing you good luck tomorrow and that aint no Blarney!   Will someone be posting for you?

Best wishes,
Wendy
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MikeS

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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2009, 06:19:00 am »
thanks all!  i'm a big fan of Green Tea as well but had to have a few cold ones last night (i assume they won't be allowed with the magical painkilling combo they'll be serving up).  probably won't hear from me for a week....wife isn't posting for me in the next few days (she gets to juggle the kids and all).

take care, thanks for the kind words and see you on the other side!  still hoping for 'stereo' afterwards but will take 'mono' if it means this is all over.
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2009, 07:28:13 am »
Best Wishes Mike! I never had a green beer but will definately be looking fowards to one. Prayers are with you, Mickey
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2009, 10:40:51 am »
Mike, one advantage to "mono" is that the kids are no longer in stereo!!   :D

Lori
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Re: No green beer this year for me!
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2009, 06:54:39 pm »
I'm with Lori too....a round of green Guinness (breakfast of champions) in Mikes name. Good Luck tomorrow.
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