I could not control it, my blood sugar ran from 30 to 990. (Anything over 600 and I am supposed to be in a coma, but I wasn’t.) The blood circulatio...n problem surfaced very quickly. I could not hold an erection. Then I could not get an erection. I tried Viagra, a lot of it. It worked one time for ten minutes. After 6 months of trying I gave up. The Doctor suggested an implant. I was not ready for that. Sex with my wife had became a nonexistent thing. I could not get hard. She would now and then. The melee broke up much to the amusement of the older men.I got out of the pool and toweled off. I sat down just as the men got up and walked across the lawn. Larry’s grandpa called to him, “Come play bocce with us.”Larry looked at me and said in a low voice “I hate this game.”I had learned to play bocce when we had lived in California. One of my dad’s friends had a bocce setup and I played all the time from ages five to nine. I’d only played occasionally since then.“Larry, I love bocce. Think. My mind went back...The first trip to the lake; the 1951 Mercury two door. I was eleven. Charlie was 12 for three more months ... then he’d be 13, a teenager in September. Charlie and I fought so hard in the backseat. I’ll bet daddy yelled at us to shut up a dozen times a mile. Well, maybe not ... but at least that many times an hour.Daddy blew his stack.He pulled over on a National Forest side road, and made us get out.“Okay,” he said. “Have at it.”“What?” Chuck said.“Huh?” I said.“Charles,”. She placed her briefcase on a chair by the door, thinking about how she should be back at work in ten minutes but she was clearly undoing her suit jacket so obviously she was going with the massage instead. Having removed and neatly folded her clothes and her jewellery atop her case, she moved to the bed. This put her behind him on his left. She was sure he could see her out of the corner of his eye but as far as she could tell he made no indication that he had so she quickly got settled, face.