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Thanks to All Who Helped
Thank you to everyone who has helped and offered to help. A few notable thanks are listed below:

• Thanks to my neighbor Veronica for helping me with laundry and other miscellaneous errands.
• Thanks to Jamie for loaning me 19 DVDs! Also for delivering gobs of groceries for me.
• Thanks to Lisa Schrieber for organizing a "get well" card.
• Thanks to Hiroko for bringing me a mass of flowers.
• Thanks to 1Jim for lending me his crampons. Yup, the same crampons that dug into the side of my leg. Well, that wasn't his fault.
• Thanks to Mike G. for lending me his ice axe. Yup, the same ice axe that bonked me on the head and cut my scalp. Well, that wasn't his fault.
• Thanks to Brutus for offerering to drive my car home from Copco Lake.
• Thanks to Sü for ensuring my paychecks were ready and depositing them while I was out of town.
• Thanks to Hot Tub Jeffrey Velure for carrying up my carload of stuff and getting me to the post office, the bank, and the grocery store when I got back from Copco.
• Thanks to Jack for offering to come and get me up at Copco or share the ride from Tracy, CA.
• Thanks to my Dad for sending me a bunch of E-mails when I was gimping at Copco and not getting on my case about health insurance.
• Thanks to my Mom for offering to fly to CA to take care of me while going through surgery.
• Thanks to Wedge for driving me to Yreka, CA twice to see medical professionals. Also thanks for loaning his cell phone.
• Thanks to Lisa F. for making me a "failure ham dinner" and ensuring proper ingredients were available for martinis.
• Thanks to Mark R. for being calm and grounding when I called from the top of a mountain (in the middle of nowhere) with a messed up leg.
• Thanks to JD for the loan of the refrigerator/freezer, the wireless ethernet, and general setup of my recovery environment. Also thanks to JD for driving me to appointments and grocery stores.
• Extra special thanks to Lisa G. who drove me to the orthopedic surgeon, drove me to my surgery, set me up with ice packs, set me up with food, handling subtleties like getting my mail and cleaning my dishes, and otherwise has truly been there for me.