My name is Alan Devereoux…

[WCGreen]

These are the first words that came croaking out of my mouth when my brother came to visit me during my 36 days of hospitalization in the summer of ’04.

My sister had tried to warn him that I wasn’t really “with it” and that I might say some “crazy things”.

It still didn’t make it easier on my soon to be befuddled brother.

Trouble is, at that time, I had adopted what I referred to as “my new persona’ and I was, for all intents and purposes, Alan Devereoux. God only knows where that came from but suddenly, somehow I was a certain southern gentleman who wanted nothing more than to wander through the south as a chronicler of antebellum society.

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the newest post in my never ending saga...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. An excellent journey it is, too...

Keep on trucking!

[nenagh]

2. You write very well Mr. Green/ Devereoux..

To have such a complete new persona is interesting.. wonder if "The Golden Girls" was on TV, was Blanche Devereoux a character on that program?

Thinking about oxygen reminds me of the time that my Dad's oxygen tube fell out of his nose when he was dozing on a couch..

As I untangled and placed the oxygen correctly up to his nose.. he told me that he had dreamed of having one foot in Heaven and that the perspective was different!

That has always given me a little sense of security about such things. :)

Anyway, many thanks for your Alan Devereoux update and take care..

[WCGreen]

3. Kick

[gratuitous]

4. That was the name of the villain in Silver Streak

We'll get those Rembrandt letters, pal. Soon as my buddy shows up in his Jag.

[WCGreen]

6. I haven't seen that movie in years...

[gratuitous]

8. Well, if you're going to have some post-op downtime

There are definitely worse movies to watch.

[WCGreen]

9. Lot's of down time while in the hospital...

10 days to 3 weeks is the window before they let you out...

[Winterblues]

5. There was a show on TV last night about a heart trasplant patient that also had a changed persona

The show went on to document how some major organs store information just as the brain does. They documented many many cases of changed behavior after transplants.. Very interesting.

[WCGreen]

7. And I haven't even had the transplant yet...

That was all from keeping me sedated so my lungs could get better and i could live...