Sandman
“NILES McRAE AWOKE ON the morning of Tuesday, June 10 disoriented and afraid. He’d been dreaming that his day-to-day role as a physician had undergone an ironic reversal and suddenly he was the patient. Not only that, he’d been about to undergo a delicate surgical intervention that could prove fatal: coronary artery bypass grafting. It was nonsense, of course. He was twenty-eight years old, fresh out of med school and about to marry the girl he’d been dating since the ninth grade...
Then the... fog of sedated sleep burned away and with dawning horror Niles realized he was fifty-eight years of age, sedentary, overweight—and he really was about to go under the knife. Hell, Niles thought, why not be honest: they’re going to split me open with a bonesaw. All those starchy, on-the-fly lunches and deep-fried cafeteria dinners drowned in gravy, not to mention the two or three evening martinis he always managed to convince himself he’d earned, all of that had finally caught up with him.MoreLess
Then the... fog of sedated sleep burned away and with dawning horror Niles realized he was fifty-eight years of age, sedentary, overweight—and he really was about to go under the knife. Hell, Niles thought, why not be honest: they’re going to split me open with a bonesaw. All those starchy, on-the-fly lunches and deep-fried cafeteria dinners drowned in gravy, not to mention the two or three evening martinis he always managed to convince himself he’d earned, all of that had finally caught up with him.MoreLess
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