GET WELL SOON, RYAN!!!

Our dear friend Ryan had a lovely hospital stay these last few days. What he thought might have been a bout of food poisoning or some other minor stomach ailment turned out to be, alas, a ruptured appendix. Fortunately, he was in Midland TX visiting his parents at the time, and is now able to recuperate with family to help out. He will return to Dallas next week.

I am sure many of you are thinking "Oh, well, appendicitis, big deal.". It is actually very serious. I know some of you may need visual aids, and so I have taken the liberty of producing this dramatization of what might have happened had his appendix burst while visiting me. This is, of course, a worst case scenario.

WARNING: This photo is graphic in nature and not for the sqeamish or faint of heart.