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by E. Alan Meece (Eric Meece)
Jan.2, 2022
Written at the UU Band of Writers meeting
UU Band of Writers Essays
Most of my essays for the UU Band of Writers are posted here
I was walking along the road, and I saw a man. At least I think it was a man, though he may have been non-binary. It’s hard to know these days. Archie Bunker didn’t get his way. Men may not be men, and girls may not be girls. So, do we know where we are, then?
The man continued to walk, and he entered the same doctor’s office that I did. I had an appointment. It was not for a sex-change operation, but just to check my calcium level. I had stopped eating yogurt and cheese in hopes it might drop, since the doctor said that otherwise it might lead to a stroke. The man started reading a magazine in the waiting room, but he dropped it on the floor. He started to pick it up, but then he himself fell on the floor. I helped him up. I didn’t offer him any of the cheese I had secretly stuffed in my backpack, in hopes of binging on it after my doctor’s exam. But I asked him what his appointment was for.
He refused to tell me. He told me though that he loved ketchup, but his doctor told him it might give him a stroke. I asked my (own different) doctor about this later. She said ketchup had never given anyone a stroke. But reading the wrong kind of magazine would. Boy, I thought, in the old days, doctors were doctors. Now we don’t know where we are with them. I asked him to show me what magazine he was reading. He wouldn’t tell me.
Can too much calcium raise your heart attack risk?
All in the Family theme with Archie and Edith Bunker and lyrics