Nevermore

| September 13, 2007

Yesterday, a day not normal, while I lay prone, dressed informalin a backless gown (hospital’s), central nervous system at the foreWhile I lay there, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently tapping, tapping on my spinal cord.‘Tis some medico,’ I muttered, ‘tapping on my spinal cord —Only this, and nothing more.’ […]

Tap, Tap, Tap

| September 12, 2007

I’m off shortly for my spinal tap. They’ll be removing some fluid for use in mystical voodoo rites… and, one supposes, testing of some sort. I don’t pretend to understand what they’ll be testing for. Even as relatively well-informed as I am, this is all starting to get into Clarke’s Third Law territory. It seems […]