Going in for repairs

Well it looks like I have a day coming in the near future when it will suck to be the layz 1. But that’s ok because I need one of those every now and then to help me appreciate the days when it’s really great to be the Layz 1. Like the day I saw my first bald eagle or the day my niece and I saw a wild wolf on the James Bay Highway in the wilderness of North Quebec. Or the day the same niece and I saw the Aurora Borealis for the first time in Raddison Quebec, and the time another niece, her children and I watch the Aurora Borealis from my back deck right here in West Stewartstown NH. The reason that it will suck to be the Layz 1 on that day is I have to undergo a carotid angioplasty. An angioplasty is when the doctor and his crew make an incision in the artery in the groin area of the leg and slide a camera and the rest of the needed equipment into that artery, all the way up to the artery in the neck and look for plaque buildup in the carotid arteries. There is not much pain involved in this but the fact that you are awake for this performance makes it a real crappy experience. How they get all that stuff to slide through my tiny veins along with a wheelbarrow and a jackhammer amazes the hell out of me. But the truth is I know I will look back on this day and come to realize that it was still a good day to be the layz 1. All it takes to convince me of this is to watch the nightly news or read the local paper. If you are not one of are young men or women in Iraq who face death everyday or one of the parents who will answer the door and be told by a stranger that they will never see their son or daughter alive again. If you go to bed tonight and you and everyone close to you made it through the day without being beat, raped, robbed or murdered then you had at least a good day. If you get up in the morning and you have a roof over your head, food in your fridge then you are all ready having a much better day then a lot of people in the world, and if you have a few extra dollars in your jeans you could say it is a very good day to be you. When I think about these things it makes me realize just how lucky I am, there have been damn few days in my life when it has really sucked to be the Layz 1. This is me saying goodbye to you till whenever.