Chapter 01: A Truly Loving Couple. This is a true story, altered only enough to protect the identity of my wife and our close friends who are also included in one or more or the chapters. I'm what's called a locum tenens physician. All that means is that I work at clinics on an interim or part time as needed basis. I used to have a regular office and go to...
Leucoderma is a disease of change in skin pigmentation, which is basically harmless but creates a lot of mental stress and agony to those, who gets infected by this disease. There was a white spot on my left forearm that came to my notice quite some time back. Being white in color, it was in contrast with my body color, but I never gave much thought of the s...
Note to reader: This story is fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental. ***** Sunday morning turned into Sunday early afternoon before Jeff and Muddy awoke. Both were tired and sore from the previous night's activities with David and Marylou. Jeff went to the bathroom and was so unsteady he had to sit down to pee. Evidently, the s...
It's been awhile since I submitted anything. It's good to be back. This story is a bit different from my usual style. I hope you enjoy. Please let me know. **************** From nowhere I became aware; aware of an empty peace. Understanding slowly filled my thought center. I had just completed a journey and now I was returning. Yet as I returned I knew so...
Three years ago my husband found a much younger woman and subjected me to the humiliating experience of being replaced by the proverbial trophy wife. We had married very early in life and I was sure that we would spend our golden years together. Although I am in my early 40's and in very good shape, it seems that his desire for a 20 something year old bott...
Chapter 7 The next morning, I got to the plastic surgeon's office half an hour early. I'd barely slept the night before and though the hotel offered a complimentary breakfast nicer than most dinners I'd had, I couldn't even keep down a single cup of coffee. My nerves were fried. I'd brought the pamphlet with me -- Plastic Surgery and YOU! -- with the inten...
Please read Siren of Love 1, 2, 3, and 4 before reading this to make sense of it. She groaned as her alarm beeped. She had to force herself to open her eyes. She knew why her alarm was set and she also knew that she couldn't ignore it even if she was injured beyond repair. She couldn't pass up this chance. There was a were tiger shot and hurt. She was the...
I was deep in thought as to how to begin telling you this story. Where should I begin? Some stories in here have lots of flashbacks which , if more than a few, really confuse me, On the other hand, I couldn't just write the story from the back forwards. That would make no sense at all. However, if I started at the uninteresting beginning, I might lose many r...
I have agreed, and you have written the prescription. You are an anesthesiologist, and everything you do is with operating room precision. Were I your patient, I would lay back under a sterile drape, open my arm as if it were a book waiting to be read, and allow you to inject a sleeping potion in my vein. Open my throat so you could insert a tube through whi...
My oldest son is circumcised. He was nine months old before the surgery could be done (they had questions about his kidney function and tests to do before they could approve it) and although my ex insisted, I was hesitant. It meant general anesthesia. It meant a much greater risk to our baby. In fact, he did have a reaction to the anesthetic - and could have...