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Will Rogers on his craft

"I don't make jokes. I just watch government and report the facts."

Posted by: Peter on Oct 28, 04 | 12:27 am | Profile [0] comments (1100 views) |

A Detour Before Dying

I hesitated to publish this story under the rubrik of humor; but there is something 'awefully' funny about it. The lesson seems loud and clear: When your doctor says you are terminally ill, do go and seek a second opinion :)

By JIM MALONE AS TOLD TO PAIGE WILLIAMS

Nearly eight years ago, just after Christmas in 1996, I tested H.I.V.-positive while I was on vacation in Los Angeles. I had gone to the E.R. with chest pains. They did the regular blood work and asked if I minded an H.I.V. test. I didn't expect it to come back positive, but it didn't surprise me when it did. My partner had passed away from AIDS. Before that I had been partying for about -- well, I'll be 60 on the 4th of July, so you do the math. Still, I felt as if somebody had hit me in the head with a baseball bat. I took the test results back home to Hayward, Calif., and gave them to my doctor at the V.A. clinic. He treated me for H.I.V. for the next seven and a half years. More...

Posted by: Peter on Oct 21, 04 | 9:04 am | Profile [0] comments (1285 views) |

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Will Rogers on his craft

A Detour Before Dying