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If Life’s Got ‘Ya Down, Pause For a Milkshake

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Oh, with the delight of a chocolate milkshake, times are happy once again, aren’t they? Gotta be! {Courtesy Image} 

 

 

If Life’s Got ‘Ya Down, Pause For A Milkshake

 

 

By Dan Bodine

Milkshake? When’s the last time you stopped on the way home and bought a milkshake? Anyone?

Well, the idea just seemed right in a recent moment for me here in the Sun City!

We were coming from a doctor’s office visit on Saturday a week ago, about 1:00 p.m., when I told Noemi (she was driving), I felt like I needed a chocolate milkshake.

Just outta the blue! An ol’ defensive mechanism had reared its head.

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7 Polyps on Colon Wall — Cut ‘Em Down; Back on Town

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Devil be damned!    —      The World Health Organization says as many as 25 percent of cancers worldwide may be attributable to alcohol consumption.  (https://www.stopcoloncancernow.com/news/april-2018/alcohol-increases-risk-of-colon-polyps-colon-cancer)

By Dan Bodine

Doctor cut seven polyps from my colon Wednesday in what’s becoming my triannual colonoscopy exam. And I don’t know whether to celebrate with whiskey or by eating more oatmeal!

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Interrupting Dreadness in Doctor’s Waiting Room

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Feigned Indifference in Doctor’s Waiting Room. (Image from CC)

By Dan Bodine

When you’re in a doctor’s waiting room about to be told a date and time a camera’s gonna be shoved up your butt for a bi- or tri-annual colonoscopy, you’re not happy. Fact of Life. Even in today’s Pandemic, this forced boredom (that actually is dreadness) we pull off only through feigned indifference.

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