My dogs hear much laughter.

Dear Randy,

Your health care treatment team, consisting of your geriatric primary care physician, your eye inflammation doctor, your pain doctor, your infection doctor, your psychologist and the staff of OU medical center nuclear medicine department believe it is in your best interest to cease mowing your lawn.  Your body can not sustain being subjected to lawn care.  You may dispose of the protection devices previously used.

It appears your physical problems match that of a male individual who is 20-25 years older than your age.

We have reviewed the article from NAMI stating your life expectancy can be decreased by 25 years.  We do not agree with their findings.

Thank you.

Your providers of service  

 Dear Doctors,

Would you write a letter like the above, replacing the words ‘mowing your lawn’ with ‘doing housework’?  I would greatly appreciate it.

What a paradigm?  Have the psychotropic medications accelerated the wear and tear of my internal organs or did I experience a 25 year time warp anomaly that did not effect my outward  appearance?  Knowing the theory of each perception, does it really matter?   

Getting older with an incurable illness really sucks.  I'm not complaining, just stating fact.  No one said life was going to be easy.  It is a natural law of the time we live in.  I laugh at myself when I do things wrong.  My dogs hear much laughter.