{"id":4193,"date":"2023-01-04T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T08:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctorshousesozopol.com\/bonito-is-a-great-power-hey\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:37:15","slug":"bonito-is-a-great-power-hey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorshousesozopol.com\/en\/bonito-is-a-great-power-hey\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurrah for the Belted Bonito!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A collection of short stories by Dr. Nanyu Manafov” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:17|text_align:justify” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Blood Pressure Theory” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1672848279266{padding-right: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

One hot summer afternoon, three retired fishermen were crouched under-neath the old, crooked fig tree by the port, caulking the rickety boat of Rashko the Orphan. They were toiling away, sipping from time to time from a glass oil bottle filled to the brim with strong homemade wine, and casually talking about med-ical matters. Yani the Hook was holding court, as he was the youngest of the three \u2013 but the one with the highest blood pressure. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have my own theory about my illness\u201d, he concluded with a certain air of importance, wiping away the sweat of his forehead with the back of his hand. \u201cWe were discussing this with that young doctor the day before yester-day, and he started telling me how I shouldn\u2019t drink, smoke, eat anything salty as if all of that mattered. \u2018But what about women?\u2019 I asked him. \u2018Why do we men rarely have high blood pressure until we decide to marry?\u2019 \u201cThe doctor chuckled. He is a bachelor, who doesn\u2019t have a care in the world. What does he know about how a woman can send your blood pressure soaring 10 times a day with all her nagging and arguing? And how this can go on for days, even years, until your blood vessels start to get rusty and finally play a trick on you, just like they tricked me a year ago. <\/p>\n

\u201cI woke up one morning ready to go catch some shrimps\u201d, he went on, continuing with his story. \u201cAnd while I was slipping out of bed, my wife woke up as well, and I don\u2019t know what got into her but she started to get all cuddly with me as if we were newlyweds. And I had no choice but to give in to her kisses. In other words, I raised my blood pressure while I was still in bed. \u201cThen I went to the harbour and got into my boat, but all of a sudden something struck me across the forehead and my tongue became tied. I got real-ly scared. I could move my hands and my feet but my tongue was tied. I got out of the boat and went straight to the hospital. I stayed in the hospital for 40 days until they fixed me. Some blood vessel had burst inside my head, they told me. \u201cAnyway, I got away with it. I got early retirement due to my illness. But I could not just stay idle! I got a part-time job at the alehouse where I prepared the fish before they put it on the grill. One day, I was sitting behind the shack in the shadow, cleaning the fish, sipping some wine occasionally, feeling fan-tastic. \u201cBut then this Polish woman came over to me, straight from the beach, with nothing but her bathing suit on. I didn\u2019t dare look at her, she was all sassy and attractive from all sides. But this lady shouted to me: \u201cPane, Pane\u201d (this means \u2018sir\u2019 in Polish) and pointed to a towel she was carrying. In other words, she wanted me to hold the beach towel for her so she could change. I folded out the sheet to make a screen for her and turned my head to the other side and the woman started to undress. I was holding the sheet, but my hands were trem-bling and this wretched desire of mine got the better of me, so I took a peek. And at this moment I felt that stroke again and my tongue started to become numb, as if I had swollen an electrical conductor. I thought that was the end of me! I threw away the sheet and started to run as fast as I could. I could hear the woman behind me screaming \u2018Pane, Pane!\u2019 But this \u2018 Pane\u2019 was running for his life and there was no turning back. I got lucky again; the blood vessels with-stood the attack!\u201d<\/p>\n

The fishermen burst into laughter and Barba Nicholas mumbled.
\n\u201cYou\u2019re right, Yani, women are a curse, they\u2019re the cause of all our illnesses\u2026\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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