Being a dedicated reader of science fiction in my youth, the idea of a cyborg is familiar to me - part human, part machine - but futuristic. With the rest of America and a good number of people around the world, I watched 'The 6 Million Dollar Man'. It was diverting fiction.
   I've had a few hospitalizations over the years until one day I realized that without one of those hospitalizations I would have died. I chalked up that miracle to the wonders of science, extending my life beyond a natural boundary.
   Later I was put on a daily regimen of medicines and I was held more closely in the thrall of medical science. I knew that, if I had lived in the time of Christ or even Newton, my daily activities would have been much curtailed.
   Finally, a cardiac pacemaker was suggested as the next step in my medical treatment. The battery, the wires - the pulse of life was to be provided by a non-living object. Another step in my evolution - Call Me Cyborg!