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[harry1]

Hi, Andreah,
Thanks for getting back to me.
The circumstances we find ourselves in change every day. Sometimes we can do something with them, sometimes not. But you can ALWAYS laugh at it. Or with it. Or in spite of it.
Never realized how much spite I had in me…
Would you know what the basis of your dads new diet is? I have managed to get through with only small skin problems for the most part, but I’d be very interestedted in hearing about diet.
I do like to stay with natural changes rather than medications, because, for starters, my mother tended to be a hypochondriac, and ate aspirin and such by the handful. Ick.
As a veteran, I’ll share a story, and keep it short.
When in Nam, my battalion (infantry) went from Phu Bai to Danang to hold security when the Marines were standing down.
It happened I had a crud growing on my lower leg, but “Hey, they got medics, right?”
I wind up with this Navy Doctor, and I said I think it’s junglerot, but it looks funny.
Now, you need to know that at Danang, there’s a clinic for “Hanson’s disease”.
This doc takes a scraping, and say, be right back.
I’m sitting on the table in the medics when he comes back, and says, I kid you not:
“I don’t know how to tell you this, but you have leaprosy.”
I’m 20 years old, in the best physical condition of my life, leaned back on my hands on this table….
My field of view turned powder gray all around the edges, and shrank to where I could only see his face, and then started to come back.
This jerk laughs, and says, really you have jungle rot and ringworm in the same place on your leg.
And I’m sitting here just looking at him.
And the Captain moved away from the Army guy on the table. I think he was frightened.
I didn’t know if I should kiss this guy or kick his ass hard enough to get him aboard ship.

Anyway…
I’ve had heart murmurs, high blood pressure, what’s known as esophageal spasms, which feel like a heart attack, kidney stones, and so far, am cancer-free.
I have told my doctor that I’d like him to have me dissected after I die, just for curiosity’s sake, and see if there really is something weird in there.
I would tell you that I have survived things that should have killed me on more than just a couple occasions, and I’m DIEING to know why. No pun intended.
I don’t deal with the VA well. A couple bad experiences that had more to do with office/billing/admin than medical.
Though , when I went for an agent orange screening at the age of 30, I dealt with a very young lady doctor who said my skin symptoms didn’t match what the book said.
I asked how long the book had been out, and was it finished yet, and she seemed a little miffed that a peon like myself could question the god’s authority.
Wait a minute. I think that would be where I insert ADD !

Thank you, andreah, for your kind words, and you take care of you, also.
Laugh every day on each of your mental channels. It should keep you busy for what? At least four or five hours?

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