Wednesday, May 7, 2025

 

  Wednesday, May 7, 2025

     I am half asleep when I hear my cell phone ring.  Let it ring.  Who could be calling me so early.  I go through the list of possibilities, many horrific. I can now list my current fears. I go back to sleep.  When I do get up and look at the iPhone, the call is from my East Coast daughter saying hello before she goes to work.   No one died or had a dreadful accident. No message from the urologist about cancer treatments.

     As I write this, squirrels are thundering across my glass ceiling. Good morning I say to myself. Fogy overcast day. A dog is barking in the distance. Meals on wheels comes in the morning and in the afternoon, I pick up my daughter from her medical treatment.

     I am watching the Acorn TV show THIS IS GOING TO HURT, a British medical story about a sad exhausted doctor in a crumbling hospital system. Somehow these kinds of stories lift my spirits. The squirrels have another go at racing across the glass ceiling.

     The Scott Turow novel, PRESUMED GUILTY is a massive book focused on a murder trial. The story keeps my attention. This week, my life is centered on medical and legal stories.

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