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WORRYWART AS REPOSITORY FOR 10 UNNERVING SCENARIOS

Ever since beginning this blog, I’ve become a repository for friends’ and family members’ unnerving scenarios. Just last month my youngest daughter called from Minnesota to say she was reading a review in a Duluth newspaper of The Hypochondriac’s Handbook: Syndromes, Diseases, and Ailments that Probably Should Have Killed You By Now. …

GETTING STONED

Recently, while visiting my daughter at college, I awoke in the night with the worst pain I’ve had since giving birth.  In a way this suffering was more severe than childbirth, because the cannonball that was grinding inside my belly never let up the way contractions do.  I thought I …