yippee!!!!!!

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As usual, the telephone hauled me up from a dead sleep this morning, and it was the doctor, with outright electrifying-to-me news. We have finally succeeded in bringing my blood levels of Vitamin D up from very nearly bubkes to comfortably within the optimal range. It's now been months since I've had the transient needling pains and cramping in my legs, and the damned, like an ill-roasted egg, bleedy spots all over me are finally HEALING. Hoo-frickin-ray! I was losing my artfully-scattered marbles. Plus, I've been steadily losing about a pound a month since snapping and driving down to a real doctor last December. So I do hereby announce that I have determined the deadline for my fully-restored vitality will be in time for Christmas, about precisely three years from when I lost it. I am probably as oblivious to that holiday as it is possible to be in this country, but you're not, so Merry Christmas everybody!