This morning I am going for my
biannual checkup to Dr. Clifton Jackness
endocrinologist (I have Hashimoto’s disease
which sounds like Something Terrible. It isn’t.
I have asked him more than once if there is
a process for changing the name to something
less ominous not as medical as thyroiditis
maybe incorporating the word blip as in
thyroid blip) and I am happy to go
to Dr. Jackness a sentence I do not use
very often with the word Dr (except for
my new acupuncturist)
even though he has told me
more than once that he’s on the fence about poems.
What's not to like?