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Happy Birthday to waqaychay and congrats on the tat!

It is just a mere 15 days to Christmas and I have done so little shopping.  I have spoken with several friends and we have agreed not to exchange gifts which is a relief.  I decided that I was going to make cookies and other goodies for most everyone else.  That just leaves my mother, my brother, his girlfriend, my father, my step mother, and my two nephews.  Not a lot of people, but I have to get over half of those presents this week because I will be seeing my father this weekend.  That means that I will need to find the gifts for my nephews, my father, and my step mother before this weekend.  Aside from one of my nephews, I know what I am going to get them.  It's just a matter of having the time and energy to go shopping.  Then I have to make the goodies for everyone at work.  I have at least bought all of the ingredients to do that.  I think that I can start fixing some of that this week.  I'm just a little overwhelmed with everything that I need to get done.  Oh well,  I need to run to start all of this running!

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Okay, this is one of the weirdest things that I've heard in a while. I talked with my father tonight.  He just came home from the hospital because he had a knee replacement.  He is doing really well, although they had to keep him in the hospital one more day than planned.  Apparently, he lost a lot of blood in a matter of 5 hours on Friday evening.  He bled through his bandages because they put him on a new blood thinner to keep from clotting up around the new knee.  Everything was fine and he had a transfusion to get him back to normal. 
When I talked with him, he said that he was sore but overall feeling pretty good.  The worst thing that he faced was hiccups.  He's had them for 5 days off and on.  The doctor said that it was a reaction to one of the medications.  That has got to be the weirdest side effect that I have heard of ever.  Has anyone else heard of this?  Usually you hear about shortness of breath, burning sensations during urination, nausea...  But hiccups?  Daddy said that he would rather have one of the other symptoms because his stomach was more sore than his knee.  That is just wrong.