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It feels weird posting here after everything that has happened. The first day after I arrived, someone told me things weren't usually this hectic. And I doubt R.E.M envisioned zombies, grenades and mutinies when he wrote Man on the Moon.

But now I think I can suspend my disbelief and accept that I have been here before and can't remember a sodding thing about it. So, this is a re-introduction. My name is John Watson and I'm a doctor. I would like to help if I can and apologize to anyone I might have accidentally ignored.

Cheers.

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Zombies and grenades might not have made it into Man on the Moon, but they're probably somewhere in End of the World As We Know It. What's up, doc? Got a theory for why you can't remember being here, or are you not that kind of doctor?

Bugger. That was a good one. If something like this ever happens again, I will have to use it.

It could be stress? But I highly doubt it. That and I have been told the machinery might be responsible for it?

It's all purpose. The lyrics go by so fast who the heck knows what they really are anyway. You think you like, blocked it out or something? I guess that's not completely unreasonable.

Maybe. But if I did block it out, then it was certainly not intentional. I think I have shocked someone by admitting this.

I can kind of see their point. Being here definitely isn't an upgrade, but I guess I'd still rather have my memories than not.

If the past few days has shown me anything, it's that this seems to be a consensus. Sure, it's a little different from what I have going on back home, but I would like the option to remember.

I'd like to think I'm the sensibly paranoid type who would always wonder about just what I'd forgot. If that makes sense. Anyway, that kind of thinking could drive you crazy if you let it. Of course, if you're randomly blocking out things, you might already be there. Not that I'm implying you're crazy. Or am I.

Yes, it does make sense. But no one has threatened to thump me yet, so I figure I didn't piss off anyone while I was here and I doubt anything life changing happened here as well.

And it's fine. I thought I was going a bit mad for a while myself for a while... it's been a really weird month. Typing about it has probably helped.

You don't count going to the moon in some kind of alternate reality life changing? Ok.

I mean when I was here before. Before I came back. The whole alternate reality is definitely life changing.

Gotcha. So what kind of doctor are you?

I am a medical practitioner with combat experience. Nothing specialist but I have seen some strange things.

Right. You sound like you'd be more useful to know back home. That's not a bad thing, I'm just saying you're probably more useful than you think. I'm about to seem like a new age-y crackpot, but what's your take on the supernatural?

Cheers. I've always thought I was a pretty useful bloke to have around. [ the intention probably doesn't translate very well in text, but John has always had a sardonic humour. ]

I used to think it was people working themselves up into a tizzy over nothing. That was before I started talking to an angel and heard someone had their arm reattached.

I wasn't trying to be a dick, but I guess I can understand if you took it like that. [There are some drawbacks to text, after all.]

I'm not super familiar with angels, but I'm pretty intimate with an alien, and some magical zombies who do fancy kung-fu. You're allowed to laugh at that, btw. Anyway, this is my awkward and long winded way of asking if you'd be willing to take a look at injuries from that kind of thing. Should they happen, I mean. I'm not actively bleeding out, or anything.

No, I believe you! I took it as it was. It's all fine.

Are you talking about the music video for Michael Jackson's thriller? Because ignoring the ones that attacked me the other day, I haven’t seen any with that much cognitive ability.

Of course. That shouldn't be too difficult... unless it has something to do with that intimacy with an alien bit. Then I would be at quite a loss. But if you need to be patched up, that is something I can do.

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