My hopes of recuperating at home for a few more days were dashed last week when I had to make an outpatient visit to the Emerson lab for a routine blood draw. I was transferring from the car to a wheelchair and pivoting on my good left leg when I heard a crack and felt intense pain. I fainted for a brief moment. The world turned bright white! From having only one good leg I was left with none. The health lab declined to do the blood draw and called a doctor to check me out. It was obvious by now that I would not be going home and would need to be admitted to Emergency. Rather than wheel me there they ordered an ambulance to take me the 100 yards up the road. Must be the shortest ambulance ride ever, but I’m sure that’ll make no difference as to how much I’m billed! I spent a couple of nights at Emerson before being discharged back to MGH. I had surgery on my left leg three days ago and now have a titanium alloy rod taking up most of the internal portion of my left femur, plus a few #14 screws to attach it to the bone. PT was here yesterday and I’m healing well. The story doesn’t end there, however, because I have also been diagnosed with osteosarcoma. While it has not metastasized and the surgeon removed all the infected bone, I’m still facing several months of chemotherapy. Oh well, I still have a lot of books to read, music to listen to, and time to work on my blog at https://onedarnthing.blog/  Feel free to browse.