Toe in the Water

A Missive for Today

A Missive for Today

Today is my Annual Humiliation Day with my doctor. I am to be prodded, interrogated, inspected, disrobed and examined to the nth degree, finally to be cast out with the usual admonitions and warnings of how careful I need to be, in spite of my essentially reasonable numbers.

Don’t get me wrong - I like my doctor and we have as much entertaining conversation as is possible in the circumstances. It is just that it’s difficult to be completely at ease when undressed and laid out on a giant sheet of tissue paper for inspection. And it is likely to be somewhat longer than usual, given the interesting year I have had healthwise and the fact that I missed last year’s humiliation thanks to Covid. No, I didn’t catch it. It’s just that the humiliation was supposed to be by video link but, for some unknown reason, it never happened.

So there is much for my doctor and I to discuss today. And it may be some time before I can leave the harsh world of reality to return to the comforting arms of WdC. Which is the point of this message to my unreadership. I shall be missing for an unknown period this morning. Please try hard to get by without me during that time. Thank you.


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