Someone recently said some terrible things about me and my wife Kari in a report to the local court. I was very angry and wanted to retaliate until I remembered a story told by President Gordon B. Hinckley in a conference talk:
Once a man who had been slandered by a newspaper came to Edward Everett asking what to do about it. Said Everett, “Do nothing! Half the people who bought the paper never saw the article. Half of those who saw it, did not read it. Half of those who read it, did not understand it. Half of those who understood it, did not believe it. Half of those who believed it are of no account anyway” (“Sunny Side of the Street,” Nov. 1989; )
So I will let these silly little people say what they want and we will move forward with dignity.
All those in the know have observed that I have been sick for several months. Things just haven’t been right “South of My Border.” Last week I had a colonoscopy. After it was over, the doctor sadly told me that we couldn’t find anything wrong. The next day I was deeply depressed. When the phone rang I didn’t expect the doctor to be at the other end. He was calling to tell me that a lab result showed that I tested positive for a parasitic bacteria called “Clostridium Difficile” or C-Diff for short. It’s caused as the end result of taking antibiotics. When the antibiotics kill the desired targets, it also kills the intestinal flora that we need to fully dispose of waste from our bodies.
I wanted to tell everyone that a “bug had crawled up my butt.”
My darling wife convinced me that I should more properly say that I had a “Parasitic infestation in my Sigmoid colon.”
PS…Idea for title accidentally stolen from “Dave The Man, Myth, Legend.” Sorry Dave, I’ll try harder next time.
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