Madden Mischief

Here’s a painfully true story about a wounded beach foot soldier that I’ll lay right at your feet as maybe beneath it is an important message. 

It’s about one of mine not up to par, actually my whole left leg is hurting from which my left foot is now an ailing exclamation point.

While my Republican right leg is fine and strong, my Democrat left leg is hurting.  Could it be due to all the socialists gaining ground on the left? 

So, I went to see my doctor yesterday to examine it, which he did very carefully. 

I explained to him that I had not fallen, banged or hurt it, but just woke up a few mornings ago with the left leg so painful from the hip down that I could hardly walk. 

“Hmmm,” responded the doctor.

Yes, doctor.  Since then, the pain has subsided a bit, but it’s still not the way it was when I would go out with my wife Rita early in the morning on one of our brisk daily walks on the beach.  Now I’m sitting in my oceanfront apartment just looking down at the beach, missing it terribly, wishing I was there.

The doc said I probably had slept on it wrong the night before, so give it four weeks to fully recover. 

“What if it doesn’t?” I asked him.

“Give it another four,” he said.  Then he gave me some exercises to do.

And now I’m finding there may be an important message in what happened to me.  Could it not be a signal to both the political left and right to stand up and work together keeping America strong and great, healthier than ever, and most of all with all our legs and feet working tirelessly together as a true United States of America?

Tom Madden is an author who doesn’t just tell stories, he feels them as you’ll see if you read any of his books and blogs.  When not writing, he together with his daughter Adrienne Mazzone are running TransMedia Group, the PR firm Madden launched when he left NBC where was vice president, assistant to the CEO, then Fred Silverman, whom he advised and mentored when they were both at ABC.