I'm starting to see a future of constant doctor visits.
A few years back, there was a group of doctors who announced that after a certain age (I think it was about 60 years old) they were going to just let nature take it's course and not accept any treatment. It would be interesting to see if they followed through...
So far this month I've had my regular doctor visit, along with labs, then a visit to a kidney doctor, coming up a scan of the kidneys and also a scan of the heart. another lab test, and another visit to the doctor next month and so on and so forth. My doctor wanted me to have colonoscopy but I demurred. I'll do the poop test instead.
Coffee is good, Aleve is bad. My creatine level is higher, borderline, so all the tests. Maybe I just didn't drink enough water that week? (Despite what everyone else was telling me, the H2O in my coffee and lemonade is...well,...H2O.)
I know that the heart exam will show a buildup of plaque. I've known this for 40 years, taking statins diligently; it my inheritance and it's the big danger in my life.
Someone I know well who is a generation younger than me just had a life-threatening event out of the blue.
I don't know.
It just seems to take up a whole lot of head space.
I'm very fatalistic. What will be, will be. I do not intend to take extreme measures to continue on. Now I'm wondering just how much of this preventative care I want to put up with. Sigh. I'm semi-retired, I can find the time to see a doctor.
I was worried about having a social life when I fully retired, but these doctor visits may just fit the bill!
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