卜老刚刚发文，说明自己从去年五月起，因为髋关节骨折不断进出医院，
更换人工髋关节后，又因为肺部积水、冠状动脉手术等状况，不过已经在
2/8出院了，还是新的计画进行中，不过少用脸书了（抱怨脸书app太耗电
）。最后语重心长的说，很谢谢大家关心他的健康，不过请不要说些什么
“为你祷告”或是“心与你同在”之类的话，最近的新闻事件让这些话语
变得荒谬。
原文
I've been away from Facebook for two months, except for the usual
first-of-the-month invocation of our lagomorphic cousins, and feel
I owe y'all an explanation. I'm afraid, though, that it'll have
some characteristics of what I've heard called an organ recital.
Back in mid-May I fell and fractured a hip. A surgeon set it, and
it was healing nicely until it wasn't. By late November it was clear
that the repair had failed, and I scheduled a full hip replacement,
which was successfully performed on December 20. I came home on the
22nd, feeling quite well indeed, until extreme shortness of breath
on January 5 had me riding in an ambulance to an emergency room, where
I was ultimately diagnosed as having suffered a heart event; the
shortness of breath resulted from the consequent buildup of fluid in
and around the lungs. Around January 22 I underwent minimally invasive
heart bypass surgery, and in the course of time I moved on to inpatient
rehab, from which I was discharged on February 8. I've been home ever
since.
Still with me? If not, I can certainly understand. I'm home, as I said,
and am mending nicely. (In fact I'm at work on a new project, about
which it's too early to talk.) While i had my phone with me throughout
—they'd have has to pry it out of my cold near-dead hand—I had long ago
deleted the Facebook app, which drains a battery with disheartening speed
to no real purpose. When I got home, the 60 FB notifications seemed daunting,
and I stayed away from it until now
That's the long and not-quite-so-long of it. But I do have one request, and
hope it doesn't sound too hostile. It's just this: If you keep me in your
thoughts and prayers, please keep it to yourself. Various news events and
reactions thereto have led me to find that phrase truly odious.
https://www.facebook.com/lawrence.block