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It's been over seven years since the physician, with scalpel and scissors in hand, removed two square inches of cancer tainted skin from my chest... So I'm officially a cancer survivor.

I consume something with sugar in it maybe once per month... I eat fast food at about the same frequency. My diet contains a lot of green stuff and I'm only about ten pounds from my ideal weight.

I run two miles, three times per week... Arguably good for 55 years.

My cholesterol hovers around 200 and my HDL is in the 40's.

I'm doing great, right?

So I can't adequately describe how disgusted I am that I must now take blood pressure medicine. My doctor told me that I picked the wrong parents.

I am no longer invincible. I am now officially at the threshold of old age. Swell.

The doctor said there should be no sexual side effects, and if there were, I could use Viagra. But that really doesn't apply to me. I mean, why buy gasoline when you got nowhere to park the bus.

I'll be pouting through the end of May.

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