a coda

Hi Jeffrey,

You may recall that my wife Nancy has scoliosis which is excruciating pain unless she's sitting twisted. No surgery could help but one surgeon practicing 33 years is a pioneer in the use of birth stem-cells. There was no choice but to "gamble" the $10,400. Ironically, the injections have turned even worse pain.

Now Nancy has been researching a solid month of researching. She discovered the most respected individual was Dr. Brett Diaz, a scoliosis specialist in using spine-braces based on x-rays.

It would cost me $6,000. I have $1,000. Would you consider giving me $5,000? I still get freelance assignments — a piece for Variety about 1968, this year marking the 50th anniversary, and a book review for the LA Times, a biography of science-fiction author Harlan Ellison. I'll have my own book, 60 Years of Investigative Satire, published in 2019 for a $2000 advance. Andy Borowitz has written an introduction, and Art Spiegelman contributed a juicy blurb for the back of the cover. Ho hum .. .

Hopeful,

Paul aka Zen Bastard aka Rumpleforeskin