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<\/a><\/p>\nKhunrum emails: "She’s cute. Luke, I’d get in contact with this young lady. You can discuss your malady and perhaps hang out, you know, be fatigued together. Perhaps she’d offer you a snort off her oxygen tank."<\/p>\n
PS. So I go to Kaiser Thursday evening. The receptionist looks at my driver’s license and then at me and then says, "Boy, you sure have changed."<\/p>\n
The picture on my driver’s license is of a cleancut All-American bloke. The person before her is a shaggy-haired Orthodox Jew.<\/p>\n
"That’s because he’s become Orthodox," says the other black receptionist.<\/p>\n
"Now I’ve got the homeless look," I say.<\/p>\n
"I wouldn’t say that," says the first lady. "You look good both ways."<\/p>\n
That cheered me up.<\/p>\n
I went to see the doctor. He checks me over. He can’t find anything wrong. I tell him I’ve been too sick to go to therapy for the past month. He suggests that is a mistake, perhaps my physical ailments are the result of depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n He orders some blood tests.<\/p>\n I tell him about my sore right knee, how it swells up when I do too many yoyos at Alexander Technique. I think there’s something torn in there. I want to get an x-ray.<\/p>\n Dr: "We could do that, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I don’t think you need the radiation."<\/p>\n He gave me an Aase bandage to wrap around my knee.<\/p>\n He noted that I had sinus congestion, possibly allergies, and prescribed over-the-counter nasal moisturizing spray.<\/p>\n I showed him my two ingrown toe-nails on my big toes. He recommended I cut the nail straight, not curved, and soak my feet in warm water every night for two weeks and massage the skin away from the nail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It must be a punishment for my sins. I’ve got an appointment tonight at 7 to see a doctor. Rodger Jacobs: I’ve had the same virus for weeks; it goes away and then it comes back. Rinse, lather, repeat. The … Continue reading