Early Returns

I'll take good news, even cryptic good news in really small doses. I called to see where my blood test results were today and reached, well, I reached the call center. Tremendous comfort in that. Just one of the obstacles on the course.

An hour or so later, my phone rang and the readily identifiable "Unknown Caller" came up on my phone's display. That always means it's my doctor or, perhaps, my friend John Kirpanos. His mortgage company uses a blocker. I guess that way the person being called will be tricked into answering the phone? Great way to start a sales call -- "surprise, I'm calling to ask you to refinance." I knew it wasn't John calling today. I answered and it was a woman calling "from" my doctor's office. Not the doctor, not the nurse. Is that good or bad?

She said she was calling with partial test results. She said the doctor told me to tell you that are "no obvious causes of bone thinning."

I guess that's good, but I am not really sure. She wouldn't tell me more. She said she would lose her job if she told me anything else. So I get a weekend of no obvious causes. Nothing is ever obvious for me. I guess I will sweat the weekend waiting for "inobvious causes" of bone thinning. Because one thing is obvious -- I have thin bones.

So Iowa and New Hampshire are in and the winner is . . . . Well, we don't have one yet -- these are early returns.