YES - ANOTHER RAMBLE

FOR NEARLY A YEAR,

I THOUGHT I MIGHT HAVE LYMPHOMA.

THAT'S WHAT THE SCAN SAID,

AND I COULD NEVER GET A CLEAR ANSWER

FROM ANY OF THE MERIAD OF DOCTORS.

SOMETIMES THEY WOULD JUST NOD,

THEN LOOK AWAY.

THE TUMOR HAD ACTUALLY BEEN

IN MY NECK FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS.

I GUESS NO ONE WAS WORRIED ENOUGH

TO TELL ME IT WAS THERE.

THEN ONE DAY NOT TOO SOON AFTER,

A DOCTOR IN THE ER

SAID

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT YOUR TUMOR?"

OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.

IT WAS A WHILE AGO

AND MY MEMORY IS NOT AS WELL AS IT USED TO BE.

FINALLY, FILTERING THROUGH THREE DOCTORS

BECAUSE I HAVE MEDI-CAL

AND COULD ONLY BE SEEN BY THE COUNTY DOCTORS.

AFTER OVER TWO MONTHS
FOR WAITING TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE RIGHT DOCTOR,WE MADE THE TRIP,

AND SEEMED TO DRIVE THROUGH THE DESERT

FOREVER

SUDDENLY FROM AFAR, ON THE LEFT

WAS A VERY MODERN LOOKING

HUMONGOUS BUILDING.

A VERY SWEET DOCTOR

JUST DID THE BIOPSY RIGHT THEN AND THERE,

AND EVERYTHING TURNED OUT TO BE OKAY,

DESPITE MY LACK OF FAITH.

BUT I STILL NEEDED SURGERY,

BECAUSE THERE WAS A PART OF THIS STUPID TUMOR

IN MY CHEST CAVITY.

AND HOW CAN YOU NEEDLE BIOSPY THAT?

SO PREPPING FOR MY 16TH SURGERY,

THE ONLY THING I WAS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT

WAS WHETHER OR NOT THE NURSE OR WHOMEVER

WOULD BE ABLE TO FIND A  VIABLE VEIN SOMEWHERE IN MY HANDS OR ARMS

FOR AN IV,

WHICH THEY DID,

PRAISE GOD,

ONLY ON THE SECOND TRY.

AND I WAS DEEPLY ASSURED

THAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ME,

I WOULD IMMEDIATELY BE WORSHIPING

AT MY SWEET LORD'S FEET.