There were lymph glands that might do him in. There were kidneys, nerve sheaths and corpuscles. There were tumours of the brain. There was Hodgkin’s disease, leukaemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. There were fertile meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell. There were diseases of the bone, diseased of the lung, diseases of the stomach, diseases of the heart, blood and arteries. There were diseases of the heart, blood and arteries. There were diseases of the head, diseases of the neck, diseases of the chest, diseases of the intestine, diseases of the crotch, There even were disease of the feet. There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe. There were so many diseases that it took a truly diseased mind to even think about them…
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