>    - hi; in article, <k5mcnr$2n6...@mud.stack.nl>,
>       brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk "Lesley Weston" wrote:
> [snip all unnec./irrel. requotn.]
>>>    the dread day arrives - it'll be my first hospital sojourn
>>>    since the vegetablisation, and i'm not anticipating having
>>>    to learn to read again, this time around, so much absorbing
>>>    interesting and enjoyable reading is required.

>> I'm sorry to hear you're not well. I hope it all goes as you would like
>> it to, and that the effects are not as drastic as you fear.

>    - i hate needles, am scared of gas (historic bad reaction),
>    and have a revulsion to tubes being threaded through mouth
>    or nose via throat to my innards.  i've been warned to ex-
>    pect any, or any combination of two, of the above, but not
>    yet told which will actually be employed.

>    - to add to which, the rli's reputation is not excessively
>    encouraging - search morecambe bay health authority or some
>    reasonably close facsimile thereof, for recent information.

>    - "i'm not anticipating having to learn to read again, this
>    time around" - i'm even hopeful that all will go well - in
>    which case i'll be convalescing, trying not to move whilst
>    also trying to find a comfortable position - or, least un-
>    comfortable position - hence building a strategic book re-
>    erve in advance [a] - but mistakes have been known...

>    - none of which, sfsaiaa, has aught to do with _Dodger_.

>    - love, a ppint. reflecting that if they were only to take
>    part of it by mistake, losing some of my stomach might do
>    me some good - but i'd sooner that not occur, all the same.

>    [a] - and attempting to tidy "my room" - or, at least, trying
>          to sort it out a bit - enough to put up some shelving &
>          clear enough space on my bed for a comfortable position
>          to be a theoretical possibility

>    [drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]