Now I’m on it first thing every morning.” I used to steer clear of the bathroom scale, because these last ten years or so, I haven’t been crazy about the news I got from it. “I’m losing weight,” Scott said abruptly. “Would you like coffee? Tea? I think there’s a breakfast pastry, if-” When he took it off and laid it beside him on the sofa, the pockets jingled. Take off your coat, sit down, and tell me what’s on your mind.”Īlthough it was early October and not particularly cold, Scott was wearing a North Face parka. That woman hops around like a hen on a hot griddle. Tomorrow she’s off to Portland for a meeting of the New England Mycological Society. ![]() I think that’s right, although it might be one of her town committees. It was Ellis’s wife who enjoyed golf, and Scott suspected that was the reason they were living here, when they weren’t spending winters in a similar sports-oriented development in Florida.Įllis said, “If you’re looking for Myra, she’s at her Methodist Women’s group. Doctor Bob played the occasional round, but mostly stuck to tennis. It certainly had nothing to do with diabetes.Įllis led him into the living room, where a big bay window overlooked the fourteenth green of the Castle Rock gated community where he and his wife now lived. The thing with the clothes wasn’t on any website, medical or otherwise. Until he knew about the clothes, that was. WebMD suggested that was the most likely.” ![]() Cholesterol a little high, but still in the normal range. Bloodwork, urine, prostate, the whole nine yards. “Oh, I went,” Scott said, “and got a checkup. ![]() Not close friends, maybe, but friends, sure enough. Which was where he and Scott had met, and become friends. “One you don’t want to talk to your regular doctor about?” Ellis was seventy-four, with thinning silver hair and a small limp that didn’t slow him down much on the tennis court. Scott was a big man, six-feet-four in his stocking feet, with a bit of a belly growing in front. Scott Carey knocked on the door of the Ellis condo unit, and Bob Ellis (everyone in Highland Acres still called him Doctor Bob, although he was five years retired) let him in.
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