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Who’s ready for another episode of Will Terry Live?

Terry L. Cooper
3 min readMar 24, 2021
The nearest thing I could find for “soap opera”. (Source)

In our last episode, Terry was waiting for the day to finally arrive when she would have her surgery. Since that episode, here’s what has happened because I know you’ve missed it and it’s a lot. I mean a lot.

Terry got a phone call from the surgeon's office. Her blood work came back “abnormal”. Of course, with cliffhangers being what they are, this call came in on a Friday and they wouldn’t elaborate over the phone. She was told to call her primary and get a clearance for surgery that is scheduled for the following Friday.

No pressure, right?

Our heroine calls her primary. The rat bastard is on vacation and won’t be back for a week. Terry doesn’t panic. (I mean really, does she ever?) She tells them what’s up and they schedule her for Monday afternoon with someone who’s covering for Mr. I Must Get My March Tan. Monday rolls around and Terry rolls in to see the sub.

The sub has all the humor of roadkill, so this scene doesn’t get off to a good start. It without question rolls all the way down the mountain and hits the skids. Ms. Sub informs Terry that…

She has stage 3, bordering on stage 4 kidney disease.

But not to fear. That isn’t even why the blood results were abnormal! “Slightly…

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