Letterman Army Medical Center closed so we had to go to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in east Oakland. Joan had heart surgery at Letterman some years before. She was pushing my chair through Oak Knoll and ran across a lady who was in Letterman the same time as she. The two girls talked for a few minutes, then the lady asked, �What are you doing here?�

Joan told her she was there with me. The lady asked me, �What are you here for?�

I have to see a neurologist,� I told her.

�What�s a neurologist?� she asked.

I told her, �That�s a doctor that fixes broken brains, and mine is broken.�

Joan spoke up and said, �It isn�t either. It�s always been that way.�

That lady totally broke up, laughing until she was crying. What bothers me most is that Joan was right!