The night’s closing in. I’m surfing the internet downstairs. Check my ebay sales. Scan the game blogs. Medical blogs. Porn blogs. The last lazy clicks of another night of nothing protesting the inevitable terrors and doldrums […]

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The old Scottish man seemed to be precariously balanced on some invisible ledge in his hospital bed. He hung onto the bed railing, to prevent himself from lying flat. Not usual behavior for a man with a resolving kidney infection. […]

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“I have this mole on my left hip,” I told the nurse in the dermatology clinic.
The last time I was in a derm clinic was during a two week rotation as a resident. I don’t remember much but I do remember the ABC’s of skin cancer and a lot of people getting liquid […]

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In a Chinese restaurant tonight.
My dear wife Amy opens up her fortune cookie.
AMY: “I’m keeping this one. ‘You should be happy with your lot in life.’ It fits me.”
I open mine up. I can’t help but grin.
AMY: “What’s it say?”
SCOTT: “‘It is time to try new things.‘”
AMY (serious […]

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During the night, he wandered the halls, yelling, hallucinating. Not too unusual in a hospital, except he was in his twenties. So he’s an early starter. Then again, when you’ve got a virus in your brain, and you’re in a strange place, and loaded with […]

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“… Four… five… six…,” I count to myself from my patient’s doorway. I can feel a drop of perspiration actually rolling down my ribcage. Eight. […]

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The kids went back to school twelve days ago.

Sun Su (our five year old son) started kindergarten at a new school with none of his former friends there. Riding a bus.

“Won’t that be fun riding the big school bus, Sun Su?” I asked as I lay down with him to sleep. […]

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It’s cold here again. Predictably off tempo the season has changed. Little things that I had looked forward to seeing blossom are gone. I don’t know where they went. But it’s always been me. Everytime. … those were the days.
Oh … and it’s finally getting cold in Michigan too. Winter is here […]

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So this is the story of how a geek like me got a girl like Amy.
I remember the first time I saw Amy, almost 5 years ago this month. It was the summer between my 1st and 2nd year of medical school and my mom was visiting. She wanted to go […]

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