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    What the Doctor Ordered
    What the Doctor Ordered
    What the Doctor Ordered
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    What the Doctor Ordered

    By Lynne Roberts

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    A collection of poems about aging and medical misadventures, designed to tickle the funnybone.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherlynne roberts
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781927241271
    What the Doctor Ordered
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    Lynne Roberts

    Lynne is a writer, musician, dance teacher and porcelain painter, among other things. She lives on an orchard in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand where she breeds donkeys and collects grandchildren. Lynne has written copious numbers of educational teaching resources from pre-school through to tertiary level. She writes story books and fantasy fiction for children and poetry for children and adults, always with a strong vein of humour. Lynne also writes musicals for which she composes the original music.

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      What the Doctor Ordered - Lynne Roberts

      What the Doctor Ordered

      By Lynne Roberts

      Published by Liberty Publications at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Lynne Roberts

      ISBN 978-1-927241-27-1

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Contents

      A Testing Time

      Aging

      Bappy Hirthday

      Day Stay

      Dinnertime

      Dreams of Lamingtons

      Dreaming

      Duplicity

      Encore

      Fitness

      Growing Old

      Herbal Remedies

      If All Else Fails

      Keeping Clean

      Making an Appointment

      Modern Technology

      Mortality

      My Little List

      Old Age

      One for the Road

      Patients

      Remember Me

      Scanning Matters

      Taxing Times

      The Belly Dancer

      The Bridge Club Christmas

      The Decorator Blokes

      The Old Bag

      The Tattoo

      The Telephone

      The Woman Driver

      A Testing Time

      She went into the hospital It will not be for long

      We'll run a test, the doctor said, to find out what is wrong

      We cannot let you eat or drink, we'll hook you to machines

      They took her blood. That's very odd, we don't know what this means

      We'll do another blood test, Hmm, it's now abnormal twice

      We'd better call a specialist to give us some advice

      The specialist arrived and called for more tests to be run

      I haven't done these tests for years, he said, this will be fun

      The specialist said Take more blood and this time keep it cold

      My fee's a thousand bucks an hour, I'm glad to be involved

      They took more blood to fill their tubes, by now these numbered ten

      Just keep her nil by mouth, he said, then do them all again

      The specialist smiled quietly and rubbed his hands in glee

      If it's a new disease she's got they'll name it after me

      The intern gave a chuckle, I'm glad I'm on this case

      It's bound to look good on my CV when I leave this place

      They took more blood and ran more tests and would not let her eat

      But I'm still feeling ill, she cried, and I can't feel my feet

      No matter, frowned the specialist, we'll do a scan or two

      You're such an interesting case now that your legs are blue

      Another week went slowly by and then another four

      With drips and X-rays, scopes and scans and blood tests by the score

      And then one day

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