Hello...John B. here (son-in-law).

Ed fell ill again last night and was only worse this morning. The Buffin's left to run some errands in Platteville this morning and Maralee somehow convinced Ed to go to the emergency room in Lancaster to get checked out. They found a gallstone blocking his port that caused a chain reaction of infection in his gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, and liver. They decided it was serious enough to transfer him to Madison for surgery. The rescue squad finally picked him up from Lancaster around 6pm. He may have surgery tonight if they feel it is serious enough. For now they are just going to go down his throat to remove the stone, with the likelihood that he'll have his entire gallbladder removed in the near future.

Keep Ed in your thoughts and hope that he'll be home in a couple days.