For the record...

...magnesium citrate is not as bad as it was built up to be.  Kind of like flat, too-old lemon-lime.  I was expecting something on the order of the fermented shark Anthony Bourdain had in Iceland from the way my mom was talking about it.

I've been fasting all day, basically, and it's starting to drive me a little bit batty, especially since the hotel we're staying at has a reception between 5-7 every night, and I can smell the popcorn drifting from the lobby in our room.  Still, there's not much longer to go -- in 14 hours, we'll be heading to the hospital, and 6 or 7 hours after that it'll all be over.  Pretty hard to believe really.

Anyway, I'm hanging in there.  Thanks for all the well-wishes I've had the last few days, and I'll try to let everyone know how I'm doing as soon as I can.