at 7 a.m. we showed up for a ritual we’ve been going through for decades – a series of medical tests in which in the course of a morning you see most of the doctors you could possibly want to see in the course of a lifetime.  Then they write up their reports and send them to us eventually.  

I haven’t done this for a long while because of covid, the war, etc.  And now that I’ve done it – i will a need a week to recover.  

First of all I always wind up having to do the fitness tests at the end of the day when I’m exhausted, hungry, and impatient.  I don’t know how this happens, but I see these young people in shorts entering the argumentry room and they’re all fresh and fed.  

I want to push them aside and scream that I’m too old for this and need to get through it just after breakfast.

But I don’t.

Anyway I was the last one out at 2 in the afternoon, and found myself unable to function.  that is – the doctors made me sick.

It is amazing that there is a program like this – Once it was very luxurious with lots of breakfast treats, and individuals who paid close attention to your individual needs, but now it is a screen you must pay close attention to – a problem when you have drops in your eyes.  And in the past I met some great people there – especially ‘celebs’.  This time it was all these high tech people who don’t talk to people like me.

Never mind – I’ll go to the theater tonight and erase my trauma.