Two Illustrations by Rick, One Rude

First the status report: after about six weeks of dialysis, Rick is looking and feeling better. He has his fistula and his peritoneal dialysis catheter installed, so we have hopes of switching to dialysis at home soon, and that is exciting. But that's not what this posting is about. This posting is about two of Rick's drawings.
Mind you, Rick has always told me that he figured he couldn't ever become a popular cartoonist because so much of what he was attracted to drawing was obscene. Well, maybe.
From the top down, I hope (I always forget that when I attach photos they stack up at the top of the column in reverse order, so I'm starting with the one I attached last):
The Meaty Urologist - Rick did this drawing twelve years ago, during his bout of prostate cancer. That was his first encounter with a urologist, and while listening to the weather report one night after he heard the meterologist introduced, well, as night follows the day this drawing came out. He found the drawing today while looking through old notebooks, and through the wonder of computers, scanners, and Photoshop Elements, here it is.
Second, an up to date drawing he did of his fistula stitches. We went to the doctors for his post-surgery check-up last Wednesday. If you have gone to any hospitals or clinics lately perhaps you, as we, were greeted by screeners who wanted to know if you had any flu symptoms. When we said no, we were each given "WED" stickers to put on our clothes to show we'd been screened. We both looked at them and said, yep, wed, for over 30 years now, and Rick put his sticker into the tabletop diary, then did this drawing of the diary, sticker, and his left wrist and hand, with annotated incisions.
If you touch his wrist between the two incisions (one over the artery, one over the vein), you will feel the blood pulsing through the connection between them, with a thrilling vibration. Rick understands this as the Bernouli effect (I think), the passing of flow from a larger diameter pipe (the artery) to a smaller diameter pipe (the vein).
He has written quite a bit in the tabletop diary lately, and I need to catch up. I also need to catch up on the Oatus Log, which I've moved to its own site:
http://oatuslog.blogspot.com/
It has been a goofily busy couple of weeks. Dialysis, of course, plus surgery, follow up appointments, and, not having enough to do, I had a root canal. I'm hoping to get back to more regular posts.