"Of course, it doesn't take much to impress a guy who has spent the last year on MRE's and hospital food," Donut teased. "I think you had to get a doctor's permission to have pepper there."

"Don't remind me," I said. "I'm still recovering."

"Donut said you got a medical discharge," Viper said, "but he wouldn't say why."

"Not a big secret, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer seven months ago. Lost my left nut, it'd swollen to the size of a baseball, and then I had a couple rounds of chemo before they pronounced me clear," I told them.

"So you're like Half-Sack in Sons of Anarchy?"

"Kind of,...