10/24/01 You probably didn't expect me to post my own update, but here it is. I went to the hospital waited all day, finally was admitted, had my IV started, received antibiotics, listened to some poor man rant for nearly 2 hours, found myself praying they would either give him drugs or me and it really didn't matter which, only to have the anesthesiologist I've neither seen or talked to, who had never seen an x-ray of or listened to my lungs cancel my surgery because of my asthma and that there were no ICU beds available. Needless to say this hasn't been a good day. Now I'm scheduled for Monday 10/29/01