Sunday, August 19, 2007

Saturday, August 18, 2007

a month of sundays

Give or take - that's what it's been since last time I posted here.
Likely enough time to write a short story
or complete a piece of art - though sadly - I have done neither.
Positively enough time to clean my house, weed my garden
and get rid of that outdated government peanut butter
that's been riding around in my car with me
since I pulled it at work several weeks ago.

But I have not done any of those things either... not one.

I have, however, given 5 tubes of blood
and had CT scans of my head and my heart.
I've also had a thyroid sonogram
and an echocardiogram of my heart.
I've done (and 'passed') a treadmill test,
had my mitral valve prolapse assessed
and peed the River Nile (thanks to Lasix - my new best fiend.)

After all that testing, the only thing I know for certain
is that doctors really need to hire better decorators.

Oh – and my brain is “normal”.



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