So...

... yes, Rick had surgery and is doing well.  He had to go under full anesthesia which he's never supposed to do, but he seemed to have come out of it nicely.  It still took a fair amount of time, but he did finally come around.

He called me one day to tell me that he'd been kidnapped and help captive with some people who made him lie on his back for six days and wouldn't even let him go to the bathroom.

Those mean people...  that mean anesthesia.  But when questioned, he remembered nothing of the event nor nothing of the phonecall he made to me.  Those kidnappers are slick... they got him to deny everything.

Here he is, recovering nicely.  Kidnapped or not.

 

 

Welcome back to civilization, Rick.

 

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