Why, yes, I do.
I was taken to the hospital in early November, spent 12 days there, and have been corresponding from my smart phone, and going through a LOT of rehab of late. I am a fighter, and somewhat tough, it'll take more than the last 6 months to take me down again, or, out.
I got dehydrated to the point I almost checked out in early November, almost didn't make it to the hospital. Once there, first 5 days, I was rehydrated, and over hydrated, bad hospital. Along that path, my pancreas started to fail, and insulin output was extremely low, so, hospital staff insisted I was a full on diabetic, I AIN'T. So, in their infinate wisdom, they kept pumping me with insulin, insisting I was a diabetic.
Day 6 brought massive swelling of EVERYTHING below my belt line, to the point I could not even walk to the restroom in my hospital room, 5 feet away. The physical rehab and docs there insisted I could walk, and that would stop the swelling. Two tries, two landings flat on my face, no walking. No getting better, so, day 12, I got transferred out of that hospital because "You REFUSE to walk". Giant difference between REFUSE, and CANNOT.
Since late November, I have been to 4 hospitals, one was one that actually had doctors that knew something. 11 operations to restore my blood flow to both legs, feet, and 5 solid months later, I am walking, not great, but, walking. Good enough to get discharged Sunday, two days ago. This after being confined to laying in a bed, swollen, not able to walk anywhere, for the first two months.
I was in the shop yesterday, got things back to working from a 6 month close down, and will get into the shop to work on Thursday.
niblet, I will look at the 5 boxes that got here in between when I went to the hospital and now, I am sure yours is one of them. I can't give you a precise time, but I want these 5 backlogs done by mid week, next week latest. If you would please send me an email to the shop address, I can get your item in the correct order to get done.
One thing I am looking into is setting up a person to help with communications and other shop workings to help, and to be available if I am not for whatever reason. Lots of changes, I do not want what happened the last 6 months to ever happen again. I happen to like the people I do things for, they didn't need this sort of thing to happen. Only thing has been, I had my phone with me, so I could do rudimentary functions by phone and email, but not much past that. I am writing this froj my big computer, and man, it is so very much better than that tiny keyboard on my phone, I have pictures/forms/stuff I can now send, MUCH BETTER.
None of this has been fun for the 5 persons that sent items in the last 6 months, and biggest "ARSE" about the whole thing being a PITA, has been ME, ME.....MEEEEE. I despise letting people down, so I just don't do that, unless I have NO choice in the matter. I also hate to wait for anything, and don't want anyone I do things for to wait, either.
So, yeah, I heard about Dave and what went on. My apologies to those that have been inconvenienced.