too many doctors – Lee Duigon

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I’ve lost track of how many doctors are working on my case, and what each of them is supposed to be doing.

Today everything is all screwed up. Totally. My chemo pills are in transit somewhere. We don’t know when they’ll be available. I was supposed to pick them up today: no can do.

Notice how EVERYBODY in the cartoon is wearing a mask. That was a nationwide cock-up, too.

Anyway, tomorrow’s appointment is now up in the air, chemo was supposed to start tomorrow but maybe it won’t, radiation was supposed to start tomorrow but maybe it won’t… And is this just an example of “Too many cooks spoil the broth”?

Patty tried to fix this on the phone. Now both our heads are spinning.

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In case you thought I fell in…

Well, heck, we shopped for groceries in the morning and have only just now gotten back from the doctor’s office: it ate up the whole day. We’re going to a bunch of doctors, we’re both stressed out… and so we went to the wrong one! We had to retrace our steps all the way back, get there late, and then sit and stew for an hour in the examination room.

We wound up getting, oh, ten or 15 minutes with the doctor, and I can’t say I understood a word he said. Patty could hardly make out what he meant. In my unlearned opinion, I’m falling apart at the seams. The whole business has made me rather absent-minded: I only feel all right when I’m working on my book. (I finished Chapter Set 5 today–one more to go.)

The next step is the MRI, and I can’t tell you what comes after that because the whole business slid right over my head.

I will now try to bring back Joe Collidge.