Lapping Around the Sun

     Warning!  After a few paragraphs, I used some cuss words to describe my experiences.  I wasn't focused on grammar and intellectual word choices as much I was on just telling it like it is as I know it.      During a couple of years ago, diarrhea started to affect my life more than ever.  At the same time, a hernia developed in my gut between my navel and genitals.  I had just begun course work in Cosmetology, and I was getting up at 4:30 every morning because I had to be at work scrubbing pot and pans and doing various other student worker tasks at 6 am. in the campus dining hall.  I worked until 7:45, then started classes which were over at about 4 pm. after which I worked a few more hours in the campus dining hall.  So I was living a busy life when my health issue began to invade my life.  Successfully, I finish my Cosmetology work, got my license, and went to work cutting hair.  Did that for over a year befo...

     The good doctor said, "Your pancreas was producing 95% less enzymes than it should have been.  You've put on some weight, so that a sign that we're on the right track.  I'll order a copy of your colonoscopy report.  Let's up the doseage of ZenPep, and we'll see you again in about a year."  I was in and out of that building within thirty minutes.