Part 1

When I was in Seattle two weeks ago for a checkup from the doctor who had performed the Coretherm ProstaLund microwave treatment on my prostate for BPH (Benign Prostate Hyperplasia) last December, I told him that I was having a little trouble--in spite of all my practice at Tantra--sustaining an, well er ah, erection. The doctor answered, "I can help you. I can write you a prescription for Viagra."

"No free samples?" I asked.

"We're not allowed to do that anymore."

"How much are they?"

"Ten dollars a pill. I can make you a prescription for ten pills."

"Now wait a minute!" I explained my financial situation.

"I can make you a prescription for five."

"That would be fifty dollars?"

"Yes. I can make you a prescription for as many as you like. You can cut them in half."

"Make it for two. I'll cut them in fourths."

The doctor scoffed a bit, but he did and I did, and the first quarter is still working, two weeks after I saw him. Maybe I just needed a jumpstart, I'm thinking, or maybe I had been too gentle with myself. I told this story to my general physician in Bellingham and he responded, "I can give you free samples. I don't know why he told you he couldn't." (I think it's probably U of W Hospital policy.) This doctor then walked out of the room and returned, "I don't seem to have any Viagra right now, but here's some Levitra. It's the same thing. You can quarter them also."

I'm still on that first quarter Viagra (my, my, at my penile root there was a sensation that I've never known before, it hasn't been like this in years and if you don't mind me saying so, for a while it was too much for my Tantra to handle!) and now I have enough of this stuff, if I ever do use it again, for more that a year.

I may try to regranulate it.