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Emory Schley: Some ‘vacations’ are refreshing; others, not so much! Ocala Star-Banner
Well, hello there again, good friends and neighbors!
There for a while, I was wondering if I would ever get back behind a keyboard again. My overly adventurous spirit has definitely been outdoing itself lately. In case you’re wondering what happened to me, here are some of the gruesome details of my little “vacation”:
During my absence from this page, in one 13-day period, I was taken to the Emergency Room at Ocala Regional Medical Center THREE times. Two of those times, I was admitted to the main hospital as a patient.
Emory Schley: Did Mother Nature and Jack Frost switch roles?
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I’m writing this on what will have been last Saturday by the time you read it. I had thought “Spring had sprung” on us here in Beautiful Marion County, but I guess Mother Nature likes to keep us guessing. She must have been snickering a bit this morning as we awoke to temperatures in the high 30s. Or could it be she just took a day or two off and had Jack Frost fill in for her?
PERSONAL NOTE: Today, I am scheduled to have a heart procedure done at Ocala Regional. It involves general anesthetic, and drilling a hole in my heart, among other tasks. Supposedly this is a relatively routine procedure to plug up the left atrial appendage, but invasive surgery always carries some degree of risk.