This page is devoted to those members who are ill and in the hospital and in need of our prayers, visits, and calls. If you know of a member who is in the hospital or very ill, e-mail us to place this on the web site. Please give us the pertenent information such as hospital, room number etc. or nature of illness and info on how to contact or mail cards. This info will only be left on the page for a short duration approx one week or as needed for length of stay or illness. Please keep the membership informed.     Subject: Dave Ward's back surgery  The final hurdle is out of the way.  I will finally have surgery for my ruptured back disc on August 10 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.  I was supposed to have had the surgery on July 6, but during the pre-op a few days before, the hospital folks decided I had to have clearance from a cardiologist before the surgery could take place.  I have long had a minor irregular heartbeat (hereditary, and it didn't stop my father from living to 88).  Got that handled last week ("Take an aspirin a day", so said the cardiologist).  Will definitely miss the Chapter J Watermelon Feed in Guthrie on August 14 and the Chapter P Anniversary in Claremore on the 15th.  The Chapter G 9/11 campout in September is doubtful.  The district GWRRA rally Oct. 7-9 is a maybe.  I'd been doing pretty well of late, still sore but able to function with some degree of normalcy.  Very sore today: on pain meds for first time in a week.  I'm so ready to get this over with! Dave Ward