{I haven't been writing much lately, for one thing my wife Debra is gone off to school so all week, and sometimes two in a row I am here at home by myself.
I guess I don't like it all that much, but we do what we have to.
For some reason with an empty house I find myself spending more time down at the jetty fishing than sitting around writing.
Sometimes I even catch one the fucking Sea Lions missed. I used to catch a half dozen nice ones each trip, now it's just one, maybe two, sometimes even skunked. Way our world is getting.
For sex? I suppose I could do like most people do, and masturbate. But I don't, way back I did but not any more. I got used to my Debs being around and she often does that for me which with her being gone most of the time now, it's tough.
I haven't even had Nikola, our massage therapist over, with Debs gone that doesn't seem right somehow.
So I have been toughing it out, it was only a year, just a few months to go now.
Anyway, this short little story is about one more crazy incident in my life, not all that erotic I don't think.}
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My wife Debs is off at school. Hard to fathom since she is 59 now, but old Doc Barker passed away and the clinic Debra works at as a Registered Nurse Practioner needs a Doctor on staff.
Some law I guess, and with all of the changes in the medical system lately, finding and keeping a Physician on staff is not exactly easy. Every other clinic spends most of their time trying to hire the other clinic's Doctors, way it is in the modern world.
My Debra really is close to being a Doctor, she became a certified Nurse Practioner years ago and was working on her PHD. Then the job came open at our local clinic and since she owned a home here, she grabbed the position as a Registered Nurse and didn't quite finish the graduate portion.
Of course becoming a Physician meant she would probably end up employed lord knows where and her roots were right here on the Oregon coast.
Debs figured that was a heck of a good deal, living in her family home, which was all paid for, and working just 10 blocks away?
She more or less ran the local clinic anyway after just a couple of years, everyone who works there is a nurse except for old Doc Barker who was mostly a figure head.
All he ever did was sign documents that required a full fledged Doctor, and sometimes try to horn in on a few medical procedures if the patient was young, cute, and female.
Everyone there was onto that, of course.
The nurses were all smart enough to never leave the 85 year old coot alone with anyone, so it all worked.
Then they found him in his chair, his half smoked cigar sitting in his ash tray, a shot of Wild Turkey in a glass on his desk.
Nice and peaceful, he just sat down and went to sleep. Never woke up, it's the way we all want to go, to be honest.
After five Doctors came and went in the space of maybe a year and a half, the company asked Debra to go finish her schooling, they would pay for it? Not a bad deal at all, so she took them up on it.
Kind of a giant raise, too, from her roughly $95K per year to a tad over 200K? Let's just say it didn't take a hell of a lot of thinking.
Of course the school is only 1800 miles away?
Which means I get to see my wife maybe twice a month, and it's back to being all alone a good portion of the time. I did that for 10 long years before I met Debs, but this was only going to be a bit over a year, hell, I could handle that.
OK. That pretty much brings us up to date.
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One morning I was in the bathroom doing my business, I am a pretty healthy old guy for being 72.
I thought so anyway.
Until I looked down, it appeared I passed about a pint of blood??
Things like that can scare the shit out of...well, you know.
Not good, so I went to the clinic to be checked. I didn't call Debs, no reason to get her all upset until I knew for sure what was going on.
Jennifer checked me out, no big deal there since she has had a finger up my rump at least a half dozen times.
Jennifer is my own Nurse, some silly rule says it can't be my perfectly good medical professional I have at home.
Yep, same Jennifer that grabbed me way back and got that sperm sample the first nurse I had named Olivia ordered. So we are pretty used to each other, nice because we can talk about anything as easily as I can with my Debs.
"Danny, we see so many bleeding cases with older males that I think it probably nothing but I need to send you to Portland to have them check you out and make sure, OK?" She told me.
Just what I wanted to do, but she made the appointment for me. Great, a 340 mile round trip.
Three days later I was on the freeway driving Debra's nice Camaro. I could have taken my big Dodge turbo but it's a 170 mile drive one way and I need to tow a Shell station along behind in my own rig.
Debs was back East and she flies back and forth so no problem there using her car. Plus it is surprisingly comfortable, plenty of room even for my six foot frame.
I got to the hospital right on time, the place was fairly efficient. I only sat there 10 minutes past my appointment time.
Inside, this painfully young Doctor named Martins, ( I think) asked me a bunch of questions. Looking for some sign or clue I guess, the truth is I felt just fine, and I bled the one time and nothing after that.
An older nurse came in and had me put on one of those silly gowns that leave a person bareassed, you know the kind I mean, pretend modesty?
Then they put me in this big machine for about 5 minutes, it looked like something the might use to teleport things off to Mars. Two nurses running that, I was thinking they had one hell of a good job. Stick a person in, push a button, pull the person out, next patient.
In no time I was back in the little office.
Hell, I knew what was coming since they had given me the two gallons of lime flavored battery acid the day before, and I got to spend most of the evening on a toilet getting myself stripped out.
Still no more blood though, trust me, I looked.
Then in comes this tiny little black nurse.
I mean, TINY! Maybe 4'8" tall, she looked like one of those little dolls we see in the toy department at Walmart.
Cute as a bug's ear too, perfect sized bumps in the front of her rather modest white smock.
"Please come with me, sir." She asked, nice bright smile on her face.
OK. Heck, I would have followed her anywhere. I was enjoying watching her fanny twitch while walking down the hall so much I almost forgot about my bare ass hanging out.
People running around everywhere, ignoring me, I guess they are used to seeing old men with their butts bare? I was trying my best to hold the back side of the silly gown shut with one hand and not having much success at that.
She put me in a little room, all there was were two chairs and an examination table with the usual white paper over it. There was some machine that looked like a small crane, and a TV screen.