Bondage.

"But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever." Robin Williams

Wednesday was a huge honking busy day at work, and the afternoon got so bad that I wasn't able to check my phone for messages until around 3:30. I kind of wish I had been able to, in retrospect, because when I looked, I found a message from Slacker Chad: Call Josie's Mom ASAP.

Call Josie's mom? I haven't called my ex-wife's mom in at least five years. I didn't even have her phone number in my phone! Fortunately, although I couldn't tell you my parents' phone number if you paid me, older numbers that I used to use all the time when I was younger have stayed with me, and this was one number I used to call when Josie and I were dating, and hasn't changed. What was up?

She answered on the first ring, and it was clear she had been crying. "Josie was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery," she kind of babbled. "I wasn't sure who to call. I tried Andrew, but he's working, I called Annie, and she is too. I tried you and I tried Corb, but..."

"Josie's in the hospital? What happened?"

She stopped, slowed down. "She went in this morning for a routine colonoscopy. But with all the surgeries she has had lately...well, they perforated her colon by accident and had to rush her to another hospital. Oh Ted, she's been through so much these past few years. I hope she's going to be okay."

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