11/15/2025
The story you see is how quickly things turned for me! 1️⃣ minute I’m taking pictures w/delightful colleagues from ME, IA, VA, OK, MI, & oh yeah IL 🤣🤣 (inside joke)… to having an emergency 🚨 surgery! I am very well now but yes, hv an incision in my back b/c of a 7mm kidney stone blockage! 1-2 more surgeries pending on a later date… !! And to top it off, I’m going to miss the Indiana Grown presenting today AAAAND the 🌱 Indiana Black Loam Conference!!! 🥹🥹
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Kimberly D. Gorham I thought it was food poisoning from a meal I ate when I returned home… 🤮 so many times in a short time! It was between 3:44am-4:45am but it was a slight relief!
Ambulance 🚑 was there in no time because I called my VAMC (VA Medical Center) “Dial-A-Nurse”👩🏾⚕️ who recommended that I call 911.
But extra special thanks to my friend Renee Evans for convincing me to go!
***All pics of me are post-op!
but !
BRB running Gorham's Golden Eggs Gorham's Golden Honey and Gorham's Green Thumbs & Nursery one day…
I will be in here for a couple days. Feel free to stop by…
Richard L. Roudebush VAMC
1481 W. 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
8A North, Rm. 2
And bring an iPhone charger (non-USBC) please!