This post originally appeared on allenelowrey.com on 5/28/2019. Everyone is fine, just recovering from a long-winded cold. Seeing a doctor here on American Samoa is, at minimum, a half-day affair of waiting around in the heat for five minutes with an overworked nurse and maybe 10 with an equally overworked doctor. They try, but as I say below: don't let anyone try to sell you on socialized medicine.

Yesterday, when I ordinarily would have been writing today's chapter, was once again eaten up by traveling. I will try to post something later today, if I can get anything done while waiting at the clinic.

Don't let anyone try to sell you on socialized medicine. I'm going to be spending today during at the clinic, hoping to be seen before the cows come home, in the full expectation of being told nothing I didn't already know.