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oh lord...is it monday already ?
Published Nov. 9, 2009Views: 241
Bumped into my family physician yesterday (the family has been whittled down to just me representing the unit, but I guess the designation still works) and she advised me to come on in this morning for the flu shot of which she had a small supply available. I mentioned that'd be great as I had a couple of other ailiments I really needed attention done to. So this morning I'll be able to have her help me with my...
- Flu shot and posibly nasal administration as well
- Lingering gout that is to the point where bed sheets going across it are painful enough to make me yelp involuntarily.
- The Boil From Hell on my back, strategically located where I can't reach to administer my own medical expertise.
These complaints seem to have a history of their own. Years ago where there was the great Die Off due to the flu shot of 1976, my loving Grandmother Rachel was one of the victims. She passed just before Christmas Day that year which was to be my last overseas posting before coming home to live with her and my Uncle Robert.
Uncle Robert was also an Army veteran, a spoon in the 82nd AB and he loved to cook, as well as eat. Gout got him down pretty bad that Spring of '77 when I finally ETS'd out and came home. He would shuffle and hop around in the mornings grousing about 'this durned gout'...then I had no conception of what pain he was going through. Now the scales have fell from my eyes and I know he was really hurting and trying his best not to let it interfer with his life.
And then there's The Boil from Hell. This is something I've really had a minimal experience with. One maybe 30 years ago that I was able to attend to myself and never got past a slight raised up stage. But this Satanic affliction has brought me to remembrance of Job's afflictions in the Bible, though I have but one, that poor man was covered with them in his test to prove the nature of his faith in God. There's also a scene in one my favorite movies, ZULU, in which a malingerer was getting a boil lanced in the infirmary with the doctor positing his observation that Africa is the land of boils. So perhaps this is an escaped African boil that has taken up residence in the inaccessible reaches of my back. Not Hellish at all, just African. Given birth to on that super continent where they say the original Garden of Eden once flourished so many years ago. Sigh.
I can tell, it's going to be a crack-jack of a Monday. For one thing I'm alive, and another thing, you are too. Otherwise I wouldn't have wrote this, and you wouldn't have read it. So both of us have a great deal to be thankful for on this bright new beautiful Monday morning!
A Norman Rockwell print titled "Doctor's Office" from one of his original paintings for a Post cover March 15, 1958.
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November 9, 2009 9:14 a.m.
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November 9, 2009 9:11 a.m.
Wouldn't wish them on anyone......
yuck.
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November 9, 2009 8:56 a.m.
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November 9, 2009 8:53 a.m.
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November 9, 2009 8:45 a.m.
Maybe she will give you an antibiotic to go ahead and clear up the boil....cherries are supposed to be the *bomb* for the gout.....and good luck with the flu shot....( I'm dodging)....
Why is it men are prone to boils? Well, I know the answer....I just dunno why there has to be such a dastardly exit for it :)
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