first i want to thank everyone for their cards, flowers, and SMS things (to use the eurpean term) - although none ofthem have arrived yet i have no doubt they rae on their way and so, so look foward to receiving your well weshes! agan, forgive ty[pos i am working with only nine fingers! but one thing i must beg of you, my piublic: PLEASE, PLESAE DON;T TREAT ME ANY DIFFERENLTY THAN YOU WOULD HAVE THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY! i am no different fromyou, except that i have a broken pinky on my right hand. and in fact, if you happen to have a broken opinky on you r right hand at hte themoment then i am TRULY no different from you. like eva peron, the trush is i have never left you - these last 36 hours i have been right here, the same as ever. [p[lease don;t think of my as handicapped - i;ve kept my promise; don;t kee[p your distance!

now. as to my treatment. i was seen this afternoon by a kindly hand surgery specialist in practice at st. lukes roosevelt hosptial who has contracted to preform an amazing surgical feat upon my pinky this next wednesday afternoon. i cannot disclose the exact time or location as i nneed to come and go from the facility in [peaceful preparation/recovery and not be mobbed with well-wishers.  but it is somewhere in midtown east, so just look for the cameras! 

i;ll detail more later, but in sum i shall stick my hand through a magic curtain whereupin it will be locally anesthetized and the doctor will manipulate it and insert pins. i will feel nothing about what i;m doing = neither pain nor plleasure, regret nor satisfaction - much as one might if one stuck one;s hand through the opening of a buddy booth window at some tawdry peep show - the likes of which i;m sure i;ve never been to!

sleep tight - and don;t worry about me! too much.