At work. ME (on phone):  “Hey, did you page me?” AMY:  “Yeah.  When I was walking into the clinic this morning, I saw — hehehe — I saw this young guy, with a big black eye.” ME:  “Uh huh….” AMY:  “And he was going to the Pain Clinic.  HAHAHOOHOOHEHE!” ME:  “… And then what?” AMY:  [...]

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“I feel like I’m staring at a very tall ceiling in the dark and I can’t see the end,” the old lady said. She became blind, literally overnight.  Things had been dimming slightly over a week, then one morning  she opened her eyes and the shade never went up. I sat by my 80 year old patient as she [...]

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People who meet my wife, Amy, often say she has a New York accent.  She doesn’t sound like Joe Pesci.  I think they mean that she can be very in-ya-face with less concern for tact than most midwesterners.  What do you think? AMY:  “Hey, are you coming out with the rest of the office for [...]

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“If I could just move my knees without hurting, I know I could walk,” the old traveler winced. He had a lot going on: blood infection, kidney failure, aches in every joint.  While everything else started to improve, the joint aches still bothered him. “When I was in Africa years ago, I remember they gave [...]

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I’ve recently started wearing my contact lens all day at work.  I used to just wear them for a couple hours if I go out or when I exercise.  They gave me a sense of freedom.  No frames to be bound in.  No barricades to my  expressions.  Plus, I got the sense that I look [...]

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