53 degrees and sunny felt like a day in the desert after the long, snowy, and cold winter that was reluctantly releasing it’s grip upon the New England landscape. It’s days like this that make living in the Northeast tolerable, when the seasons change the sheer difference is enough to lift your soul. Naturally my thoughts turn my two greatest passions when I...
Our family doctor, a specialist in Internal Medicine, is one of 120 specialists in many medical fields with offices in a clinic in our city. The four-story building is connected by an enclosed overpass to a huge hospital complex. I had an appointment for the three-month checkup of my high blood pressure. Debbie, one of the doctor’s medical assistants, is my...
My name is Kory. I'm a student at the Quincy Institute of Technology in Quincy, Massachusetts. It's a small, four-year private technical college with an eight-thousand-person student body. We have one campus and that's the one in Quincy, obviously. I am a local, having graduated from Quincy High School recently. Yeah, I'm a local girl. I'm finding my college...
A little background first is in order I think just bear with me through the little pitty party please.. or move on.. I am 23 years old, around 6'7 when I stand up straight, typically only about 6'3 because I tend to hunch to try to hide and because I'm shy and my back hurts. I have AP Scoliosis and a Caephosis of The Spine which earned me the nickname "Turtl...
On Monday there were eleven applicants for the two part time painting positions that I had advertised to fill. Huley sat next to me in the cafeteria as I spoke to the young men, one at a time. Some of them had experience, others did not. Some had their own transportation, others did not. Some looked strong enough to handle a heavy ladder, and some had to be...
"What the hell is this?" Tom wondered aloud when he spied the shirt and pants, hanging on a hook at the foot of the stairs in the basement. They were not his. "Those are Jimmy's," his wife, Pat, hollered back at him from the laundry room. "He leaves them here and changes when he works." Jimmy was the handyman, specializing in home improvement, currently pa...
I was having an issue with my right testicle. Well, not really an issue per se, it was about three times the size of my left one. So I thought maybe I should have it checked out. So I made an appointment with my doctor and didn't think too much about it after that. Well, not as much as you can when one of your nuts is triple the size it should be. (Spoiler a...
My wife Lee and I are members of an HMO. Part of the program is a simple physical exam every two to three years. Lee mentioned she had scheduled us, since it was now at six years since the last one. I really didn't mind, it just seemed a waste of time to me, but Lee insisted, especially since I am now coming up on 60. I had almost forgotten it, since we ha...
I am an East Indian male, of average good looks, and have been fortunate in having a great education – beginning with a school that was started in 1865, by the British! I wrote this set of experiences, all true, as part of a set of e-mails to a close friend. I saved the files, and thought I would publish them. They are a kind of chronicle, primarily recallin...
I don't believe either of us understood why that happened, but we just went with the flow. I believe she was accepting of the situation, because she was just following orders that were beyond her control. She was not showing off, she was just doing what the doctor said, to maintain her health and have a family. She had just gone to the doctor's office in the...