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By Arthur Vidro
Right after Election Day my right side started hurting badly. I eventually phoned for an appointment with a surgeon at Valley Regional Hospital who had operated on my other side in 2016 and warned me at the time that this might happen.
I took the earliest available appointment, Dec. 3. That day, the doctor saw me, confirmed my fear, and we agreed on surgery as the smartest course.
Usually this sort of surgery is scheduled a month or more in advance. But I was lucky. There was an opening just four days away.
âSign me up,â I said.
Any wait would have been lengthy. The schedules of the hospital and of the surgeon precluded any other date in December.