Take two of these and call me tomorrow

If I ever get sick, I mean seriously ill, I'm probably a goner.  Checked out.  Movin' on.  

This morning I saw a commercial on TV for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.  The guy (a patient) asked, "Do you know all about the type cancer you have?  Have you read everything you can about it?  Have you asked your doctor every possible question you can think of?"

On the rare occasion I go to the doctor K asks me when I get home, "What did the doctor say?"

"He said to take these."

"What are they?"

"Little white pills."

"What's wrong with you?"

"I'm sick."

"Well duh!  What specifically is wrong?"

"I dunno, but these little white pills will fix it."

K says I should always ask the doctor if he's color blind.  She says if he is, and he gets the color of my pills wrong, I'm screwed.

Medical stuff just bores me to tears.  I'm a very good 'delegator'.  I don't need to know everything about "X" as long as the person I delegate to knows all about it.  That's why they are doctors and I'm not.  They like that stuff.  I don't.

"What have I got, Doc?"

"X"

"Gimme the Reader's Digest version."

"Do this, don't do that, take these, pay that."

See....simple.

Why do we always have to complicate things?

(And if that doesn't work, I've asked K to make sure I have The Mother of All Wake's, and you're all invited. ;)

S

Stay healthy....get dirty

A big "BREAKING NEWS" sign flashed across my morning news  TV screen just now so I sat up straight and paid attention:  It seems the US Postal Service will be ceasing Saturday mail delivery beginning in August due to their continuing financial problems.

OMG....you mean they're still delivering mail?  I thought they went broke months ago.  I guess I should go clean all the accumulated junk mail from my mailbox.  (Shows you how relevant they are to my life.)

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At the risk of jinxing myself I'll share this recent observation:  K came home yesterday and said everyone in her office was sick.  Many called in sick, and the ones still there were coughing, sneezing, and hocking stuff up.  Someone asked her why she never got sick?  For that matter, she and I are both rarely sick.

Here's my theory....we're acclimated to many of the germs and bacteria floating around the environment, just as doctors who see sick people all day long rarely get sick.  We pet our dog who walks around on sidewalks and in the yard and sniffs other dogs.  We hold on to the handrail on escalators.  I'm outdoors a lot exposed to pollen and dust and pollutants.  

Yes, we wash our hands, but we don't use those antibacterial gels 20 times a day like some do.  Those are the types who run to the doctor at every sniffle and demand prescriptions for antibiotics, then find their systems are so sterile they can't take exposure to anything.

So here's my medical tip of the day:  get dirty.

(Doesn't he look healthy?  :)

S