How about a laugh, (hopefully)

Comedian Rachel Feinstein, on her fireman husband...

Taken from Somebody Else:

More and more doctors are running their practices like an assembly line. One fella walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” So she took down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.
Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aide came out and asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” So she took down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told him to wait in the examining room.
A half-hour later a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” So she gave him a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, told him to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.
An hour later the doctor came in and asked him what he had. He said, “Shingles.” The doctor said, “Where?” He said,
“Outside in the truck. Where do you want them?”

Funny living only in an apt and having to no longer visit the building construction sites for a decade now, but a short, no-vaccine brush with body-site shingles, with daily dose of Mayo Clinic readers, my belly muscles couldn't help go curdling.

Seriously kamama, did you try Readers Digest, or for cartoons, New Yorker?

(@kamama94
Did grandma ever say “I hope he was a beautiful baby”?

I can relate re living in an apt and especially to shingles - been there, done that, t-shirt to prove it no longer fits. I, on the other hand, do have fits. Years ago I thought about RD and the NYer but never did - most of what I post may have my own twist but isn't truly original, hence all the Elses - Somebody, Anybody, Nobody Else and their relatives. And then there are quips from my maternal grandmother, who said of a friend who was aging gracefully, "He's gonna look like hisself the rest of his life." Hats off to you, Nana!

Unlike your Nana's ageless friend, Yertle, my pet turtle who just turned 26, is beginning to really show his age .... he's just a shell of the turtle he used to be.

I can relate re living in an apt and especially to shingles - been there, done that, t-shirt to prove it no longer fits. I, on the other hand, do have fits. Years ago I thought about RD and the NYer but never did - most of what I post may have my own twist but isn't truly original, hence all the Elses - Somebody, Anybody, Nobody Else and their relatives. And then there are quips from my maternal grandmother, who said of a friend who was aging gracefully, "He's gonna look like hisself the rest of his life." Hats off to you, Nana!