Thursday, June 24, 2010

The blessings of baldness

This was written Tuesday evening. 

This morning I went downstairs to let the dog out and a bug buzzed my head. I thought it was a moth that had come in during the night after flirting with the porch light when the door opened. I brushed at my head, brushed the bug away and noticed that it ascended on a thread, not wings. Whew...if I still had my mop of hair, it would have surely been tangled up in my curls and emerged later in the day to scare me, perhaps in the middle of treating a patient. Or I would have ended up with a spider bite...just what I need (not). I still think that the tick bite I suffered a year ago led to my immune system being weak enough for the tumor to get out of "in situ" status.

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