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DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

It's so relaxing. I don't even know why.

Nah, we're originally from Chicago. We're city slickers.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Maybe this is your next radio show.

Long way from Chicago, how did you end up all the way over here?

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Eh, I probably won't actually do a radio show.

I took a job in Seattle for a couple years while Z was away in NYC. She came here to visit a friend, I drove down to pick her up, shit hit the fan and here we are.

How about you? How'd you wind up here?

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Why not? I would have thought all of Prescott would be all over that. Radio is a pretty good way of getting your health promotion across, Dr. Niko.

Hm, there's something to be said about timing. I don't believe in coincidences or the universe being a gossipy instigator, but good that you were together in all of this.

I'm from Oregon, but I'd been in Seattle for just under a decade for school. Tried to make it out of the city to Oregon on Day 1, but plans change.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Because I made a joke about making a sex show and then I kept yes-anding it into being a real thing, and then the kid who wanted to help dropped out anyway, so maybe everyone will just forget I said anything. No one actually wants me to give them sex advice.

Yeah, I'm really glad we're together even if the circumstances kind of suck. I'd have lost my mind if all of this happened and I didn't know where she was.

I'm sorry you never made it home. You seem to be making the best of it, though.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Wait, what were the yes-ands? I want to know what this sex show was going to be.

I haven't made it home yet. I have a younger brother and an older sister, a niece, all who very well could be dead right now. My gran is, which means their chances, even in Eugene, are fairly low. If they're alive, I'll find them again, but there's no use in lamenting about it when there are people here who need me.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Oh, I just made a crack about how I'd be Dr Ruth and it spiralled from there.

Well, hopefully you make it down to check or get news somehow, someday. I wish I could go home, but it's unlikely. I have Z here and she's safe, and that's all that really matters to me. I'll just keep doing the best I can for as long as I can do it.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Except you'd be a great doctor Ruth. No one needs safer sex talks more than people in an apocalypse alternating between two pairs of underwear.

All anyone can really do. I don't think a major metropolis will be a good idea for a long while.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Yeah, maybe. Harm reduction, and all that.

You're right. Statistically speaking, everyone and everything back there that I cared about is probably gone anyway.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Well I think you'd have an audience. At the very least, prevent people from using anything they can find. And if you point them our way that's some nice business for us and the sex toy market.

Probably. You may never know for sure, but I think your time is better spent focusing on what you can do here.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Oh, that's a great idea. Everyone stopped listening to my horror stories about things we found stuck in butts in the emergency room ages ago. Flared bases, people!!!

Yeah, probably. All I can do is try to stop people from dying until I die.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Everyone at Prescott. This is a whole new audience for flared bases.

That's the spirit.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Maybe I've missed my true calling.

👍🏻

DM, 10/24

[malting]

No apocalypse like this apocalypse to find yourself.

Am I making things worse?

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

Maybe I'll become a travelling dildo salesman. Who needs doctors anyway?

Nah, I'm good! I'm great! Nothing can stop me.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

The ones that need a reminder about flared bases, remember?

[...] What do you do for yourself? Aside from the pep talks.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

You'd think they wouldn't need a doctor to tell them that, and yet...

[...] I go for a run to the nearest wooded area and I scream.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

Hey, it keeps you in a job at least.

Oh that's you? Good to know.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

I guess, but at what cost?

I try to be discreet about it! I'm not a monster!

DM, 10/24

[malting]

I think that's something you actually do need to answer for yourself. I'm not sure you can keep going this way if you don't find ways to keep yourself healthy too. I say, as a relative stranger.

Your forest screams are very demure.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

You know, before all this happened I was planning on taking a break? I missed my chance for that.

Why, thank you!

DM, 10/24

[malting]

What would you have done?

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

I don't know. All I knew was my contract was up in 3 months and I wanted to move back East to be closer to Z. I was burned out and jaded and lon and I didn't need more money.

DM, 10/24

[malting]

It's not exactly the same, but I know a little something about feeling aimless and needing change, and not knowing exactly what. I let myself stall out, which is not something I recommend. We might be in an apocalypse but that doesn't mean you can't take some time to think about what you need.

DM, 10/24

[trustmeimadoctor]

To be honest, I don't know what that is, other than that I need my kid to have some safety and stability. It's probably too late for me, but I can help make sure she has a good life.