Attn: all sadists

Why bother with whips, canes and other instruments of inflicting pain? Just go to the doctor and ask for a coritsone shot.

I was in the podiatrist's office this a.m. finally checking out my foot pain I've had for 8 months, since I don't have to travel for work for another month. While waiting for the X-rays to develop, I picked up an Esquire magazine and started reading an article for men about sadism.

Okay.

The "Master" was talking about using a cane, a flogger to inflict pain and get the "slave" to the point of pain where the endorphins kick in. He said it gives him a rush. Okay.

It was very odd reading about this while sitting in a doctor's office. The doctor pressed the heel of my foot. "Does this hurt?"

YEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After I climbed off the ceiling, he did the Xray and informed me I have a bone spur and arthritis in my foot. Then he gave me a cortisone shot that's supposed to make the pain go away for a couple of weeks.

YEOW!!!!!!!!!! If you've ever had one, and I had one years ago when I ripped a muscle in my back, it feels like someone shoving a railroad spike filled with acid into your muscles.

As I limped out of the office, I kept thinking about that article on sadism. I wonder if someone injected the "Master" with a coritsone shot into his gonads, if he'd been jelling, feeling the rush, waiting for those endorphins to kick in...