Gout when there is too much meat, “sugar” when there is too little. (Irish potatoes, white rice, corn bread, light bread, chalky lima beans.) Karo syrup blood. Being “odd.” Arthritis. (Mama calls him “Arthur” because she’s known him so long.) “Sorriness.” Back pain: lower, middle, and upper. Advil like M&M’s, then codeine, Lortab, Oxycodone, Oxycontin. (“Mama, what does that doctor have you on?”) Cancer, lymphoma, Hodgkins and non-, cancer of the lungs, and stomach, and pancreas, liver, and ovaries. Injuries of being crushed by a cow or combine. Vibration white-finger syndrome. (“He quit farming years ago, but the tractor keeps running in him.”) Birth defects, hypospadias. The saws at the lumber mill take their tithe in digits and limbs, in hearing. (Did you hear about the two men in the woods felling trees? A big pine slid and knocked one fellow on the head. His buddy ran up to see the hit one rise, stand, and walk. Everything was fine except he could not hold his head up. It rested on his shoulder like a cantaloupe.) “Nerves.” A lot of folks suffer from nerves.