I'm in a hotel in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. I'm in the UK on a four week business trip. I have exactly one friend in Devon who is not from work, and I had plans to hang out with her, and meet her husband today. I guess I should say that I had one friend in Devon who is not from work. Jenn Gabriel-Powell had an accident yesterday, suffered a subdural hematoma, and never recovered....
This tale starts in late June with extreme abdominal pain that, for at least four hours, I was convinced was just severe gas pain. I was sweating and shaking and curled up in a ball, and eventually asked Jen to get me to the emergency room. Well, x-rays, urine samples, and a contrast CAT scan later, and I was told that I had a Kidney stone descending into my bladder. That was 4mmx2mm, and too small for them to try to do anything specifically for....
Or: What I knew, what I thought I knew, and what I really didn't know. I have, since at least 1999, worked with companies that are internationally distributed. This means, I regularly have correspondence with people in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Some of these folks, I have become friends with, so I have had personal correspondence with people in these countries, both paper and electronic....
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