Phred is out of surgery, but up in Intensive Care. I just spoke to his nurse, and she said he was put in Intensive Care because his blood pressure was up a bit too high during the procedure, but by the time he actually got TO Intensive Care it was fine. He's fine and resting.

I said "He's got a big crowd" and she broke in to say (not unpleasantly) that she knows, and thinks they've all called in separately. I explained that not everyone has called, as we stretch from Canada to Calfornia to Argentina and Australia, but that perhaps by posting, I'll have forestalled more calls to her!