Physical

Doctor: "open wide and say "ahhhhhhh"

Blobby: "ahhhhhhhh"

Doctor: "when's the last time you've seen a dentist?"

{Blobby faux checks his watch}

Blobby: "I dunno.......about 50 minutes ago, I guess."

He wasn't expecting that answer, I bet!  

I mean, I should have been offended at the question, no?  It was a full 0.8 second look in my mouth, how bad could it be???

But this was my physical yesterday. It just happens that lately my periodontal visits, my doc visits and / or my psych visits end up being on the same day. It's weird. 

I know it was a probable standard question, like 'have you fallen in the last 12 months' (have I!!!), 'how much do you drink', 'do you smoke'.  But he never axed about my eyes!!!

Anyways - my labs, for the most part, are good. My platelets are on the low side of normal. Just below. And I have microscopic blood in my urine - but he said many runners get that. Which is good, because I told them I am not doing another cystoscopy. 

I did bring up my year-long issue of getting lightheaded almost each and every time I get out of a chair or bend over to bag Shep's poop. Oddly - which is a bit weird - it has been very few times since the marathon. 

We looked at drug interactions. But adverse reactions in that way are less than with 1% of all what I take. Not to say I'm not in that category. We did some orthostatic testing. Meaning: blood pressure lying down, then sitting up, then standing up. 

While the one standing was the lowest, it wasn't so low. I was much more concerned about how high it went in the sitting up go round. Fellow and Attending both agreed when I said that, but they had no real answers. 

I knew what they'd suggest, and they did: increase hydration and don't be conservative with salt. I said that last one would be tough. I cook with salt, but the salt shaker almost never comes to the table. Pepper - yes. As with most things like this, I got a: "we'll watch it". 

Oh - and I also got four (!!!!!) vaccines:  Flu. Pneumovax, Covid and Meningococcal. All in the same arm (my choice). They asked if I wanted all four today (well, yesterday) and I said, may as well, because I'm not coming back for them. 

As of the writing of this, save a sore arm, I have had zero side effects. The last few Covid ones have not been an issue, so I think I'm clear. 

It seemed like the appointment took forever, but hey, usually they rush you through, so I was happy to get my time with these guys. .....the gay medical assistant creeped me out a bit though. Just a weird vibe...what can I say?

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