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Clever, Link, clever

Posted by linkmeister on 14 July 2017, 8:42 pm

For the past two or three months I’ve had upper-arm or shoulder pain in my left arm, and I finally got around to making an appointment to see my doctor about it. All praise to the VA; I called and was transferred to the advice nurse when the original scheduler heard my problem. He said …

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