PVD seems scary as hell to me. Did they laser you? (My stomach is clenching just reading about it.) Hmm, knees, eyes... haven't you been getting your oil changed regularly or something? Saying a prayer for you, (and knocking on wood).

Hope everything is better (as well as can be) in time so you can enjoy yourself in Montreal.

Oh, the meat guys sound very suspicious. Around here door-to-door people always leave fliers, and the back-of-the-truck meat guys always sell from vacant lots or the corner of a gas station.