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Check out my grandson!

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I’m running a small contest here. Two prizes, both of them signed and personalized copies of Jhegaala (now that I have my copies).
One copy will go to the seventeenth person (only one entry per person) to email me offering to send me a copy of The Forest People by Colin Turnbull. I […]

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The one weakness in the Mexican Healthcare Experience was the aftercare was a bit sketchy. Should I be using ice to reduce the swelling where the stitches are?

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…that Steve is too shy to tell you about himself — Jhegaala’s first printing has already sold out and gone to reprints.
p.s. Watch Dr. Horrible today. Tell your friends.
Correction: PNH very nicely wrote to me to say that what has happened is that actually orders from bookstores exceeded the initial amount printed, and Jhegaala has […]

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Doctor Natera came by, I think around 9PM. He’d been delayed by a sudden inrush of patients, I think at the other clinic, where he treats those who can’t afford the services of “Star Medica.” He asked if I was in pain, and we had the “little pain?” conversation. He convinced me […]

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I think it was around 11:30 or 11:45 at that point.  The anesthesiologist explained that he was going to give me a tranquilizer (or did he say sedative?  I can’t remember), then numb me from the waist down.  I swallowed and nodded, mostly thinking at that moment of long, long needles inserted into me in […]

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As Reesa said, the couple who picked us up to drive us from El Paso to Jaurez were exceptionally nice.  Up until then my arrangements with the medical group (medicaltourismco.com) had been very professional in feel; but this felt personal and family-like; in part because of the child car-chair in the back seat.  I suppose […]

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