perzephone | Rob vs. the Pox (Reply)

I think Rob has the chicken pox. He's got something hideous and rashy at any rate. He's eaten nothing new or interesting lately, and the Sudafed he took did nothing to bring the welts down. Don't think it's bedbugs - we heated up his bed & his spot on the couch & no small blood-sucking sesame-seed sized crawlies surfaced. It also spread from the time he woke up from just his back, to his stomach, & from there up his neck & down into his crotch. He's been kind of feverish these past couple of days, but he's worked himself into a fine state of panic attack over me telling him to get a job. It's either the pox or he's managed to give himself anxiety hives.

Our general practitioner died earlier this month - September 11, to be exact. He was on his way back home to Ireland & collapsed at the airport. He was a great old-time country doctor. Dr. Peter Mattimoe, Obituary

Dr. Mattimoe was really just a nice guy. I can't help but picture this in my head, though. The corpse in the grave next to him learns that he was a doctor in life, knocks on his coffin, waggles some decomposed body part at the good Doctor & says, "Hey, does this look infected to you?"