Thanks, guys. You have no idea what your thoughts and prayers mean to me.
My sister called and said not to go to the hospital. The place is jam-packed with flu victims and is a huge incubator of illness. I got my flu shot a while back, but it's not a guarantee. (Mom had her flu shot too, and look where it got her.) Evidently that town (Hagerstown) is experiencing an epidemic of classic proportions. She laid in a cubicle in the ER for 11 hours before a bed opened up for her. Everybody in the hospital is wearing face masks- they make everyone put one on when they walk in the door. Sis said, in regards to my coming for the "vigil", that a doctor told her to keep me away that with my new hip I'm particularly prone to infections of any sort (including pneumonia) effecting it. I'm thinking perhaps I'll go anyway.