Two Xs

I’ll keep this brief.

On this day, as I have been on so, so many other days, over more decades than I care to count, I am grateful for these.

And, just a few months before my fiftieth birthday last year, I learned that there was no law, no proscription requiring this prescription to be cycled three-one-three-one-three-one ad infinitum. I already was profoundly grateful because, after the dream of children had passed, that prescription and two compassionate doctors saved me from undesirable surgery. But the freedom from that incessant and onerous pattern - however briefly it shall be true for me - has been a Godsend.

I promised I would keep it brief.