[Rhodes22-list] Warts and All!

[Robert Skinner]

Good points all, Brad.

Right now, I have no warts to deal with, 
but I will definitely remember the retail 
nitrogen freeze.  Cautery with heat ain't 
fun.

/Robert
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Brad Haslett wrote:
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Somewhere along the way I missed the reference to warts, but, since we're
> there-
> 
> About fifteen years ago I had a layover in Appleton, Wisconsin and it was
> snowing like crazy when we landed.  I woke-up about 11am and was going out
> to grab a sandwich but saw that we were in a blizzard. There was a doctors
> office directly across the street and I thought this might be an opportunity
> to get 'just one more' treatment for a wart I had growing under my
> thumbnail.  It was a father and son practice, the son didn't bother to come
> in that day, and there were no patients.  Doc must have been in his late
> 70's.  I explained that I'd been fighting this thing for over a year and
> didn't care if he froze the whole end of my thumb off, just make it go
> away.  He did damn near that but I never had another problem with that
> issue.  We spent the better part of the afternoon solving the worlds
> dilemmas and as odd as the association may be, I always think of 'Ole Doc
> Wisconsin' when the discussion of warts comes around.
> 
> More recently, I had a small mole that appeared but just never found the
> time to suffer the inconvenience of making an appointment. I saw one of
> those do-it-yourself nitrogen freeze wart removal kits at the drugstore and
> thought, why not?  I know they're not supposed to be used for moles but I
> did it anyway over the course of three days and learned a new trade. I would
> hang a shingle in the front yard, "Will Remove Warts For Beer" but I'm sure
> there's something in the neighborhood association bylaws against that.
> 
> Getting back to health insurance, we have to solve the problem of the two
> tails of the bell curve and then flatten out the center with lower costs.
> I'm convinced we're going to get some kind of national health care
> coverage.  Whether we do it smartly or quickly is another matter.
> 
> The country is tacking to port and I'm more inclined to hike-out for ballast
> rather than fight for the helm.  The wind will shift direction soon enough.
> 
> Brad
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Robert Skinner  "Squirrel Haven" 
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