Fuzzy Consciousness
as featured in Desert Exposure Magazine RaisingDad by Jim Duchene Fuzzy Consciousness “easing my way into geezerhood” I’ve reached the age where I've gone from “old enough to know better” to “too old to care.” Fortunately for me, my wife cares, so she makes sure I go to my various doctor appointments where I get poked, prodded, and lectured. Unfortunately for her, I’m like my mother, who didn’t care to go to the doctor or take medication, and yet somehow lived to a ripe old age. When I explained this aversion to my buddy Maloney, he reminded me of a friend of ours who recently died from prostate cancer. Like my mother, our friend also didn’t like going to the doctor. By the time he went, his cancer was Stage 4 and already spreading to his other organs. “If they caught it earlier,” Maloney told me, “he’d be alive today.” "See?" my wife said, also reminding me of ...