Dear Howard,
It's Christmas time here. Anyway, I was out helping my neighbor do her errands the other day when I saw this stethoscope in the window of a medical store downtown. I thought of you right away. It's this medical instrument where you put ends in each ear then another end on someone's chest and you can hear their heartbeat. I wanted to get it for you so bad that I went so far as counting the money I've saved up just to see if I could afford it. But then I remembered that I'm not going back down, and will probably never see you again. I was so bummed! It's the perfect present for a doctor in training. It would make all the other doctors so jealous! And you deserve it. But I can't afford it anyway. Stethoscopes are way more expensive than I thought. But it was a good idea.
Too bad I'm not a doctor here in the Overland. You could teach me all you know, and then I could teach you all I know, though I doubt a 12 year old would know all that much. But just think, if we pooled the knowledge of the Underland with all that we've learned in the Overland, wow, could we ever kick some serious medical butt then! You and me against the plagues of the Underland. We might even be able to cure the common cold. That would be something.
Do people get colds in the Underland? I don't think I even saw anybody sneeze there.
I didn't see any pregnant women either. But I saw plenty of kids. Why is that?
Well, like they say, it's the thought that counts.
Gregor
