Today was one of those days where hopefully I'll get a lot more out of what went into me. This afternoon I had a regularly scheduled appointment to get some blood drawn to get tested for a thyroid condition I have developed (turns out I'm not fat, just swollen!) in my middle stage of life.
For years I thought my relative inactivity and poor diet were to blame for all those class reunion gasps and snickers I get, but this whole hypo-thyroid condition/excuse is way better. Of course, being of the underachieving variety, I would have a hypo-active thyroid which slows down my metabolism. Couldn't I have at least had the hyper-thyroid where it speeds up your metabolism or at least one with ADHD? Nonetheless I trudge forward with hopes my doc can find the right combo of meds to take the hype out of my thyroid for good. We're getting close.
Anyway, after the nurse was done taking out a withdrawal from my blood account, she asked me the question, "Can I do anything else for you today?" Now right away I thought about my salt-encrusted pickup truck out in the parking lot and thought about gauging her interest in taking it through a car-wash for me, but I figured that might be out of line.
It was then I remembered up to that point I neglected the warnings all those agencies with acronyms had been tossing out about the importance of getting an H1N1 shot, so I had the nurse put in an order for one of those for me.
After being directed to a waiting area, a nurse armed with a needle just itching to plunge itself into someone's pasty white upper arm appeared with a smile on her face and redirected me to an exam room.
"Have you had your regular flu shot yet?" were the first words out of her mouth the minute she closed the exam room door and when I told her "no" she asked if I wanted to get that taken care of as well and I quickly shot back, "Sure! Shots for everyone!" and then almost had the gumption to direct her to my medical charts to see if maybe my measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations weren't up-to-date and to direct the folks to load up a couple more syringes for launch.
I'm happy to report my cooler head prevailed and I settled for just the two flu shots to increase my odds of getting through this winter without any of those major illness that has shut down several others I know for weeks at a time.
I'm sure I've been burden enough on my wife already this winter season, and whenever I've go down for the count via sickness since we got married more than 13 years ago, it's at that time my wife gets the Yellow Pages out and lets her fingers do the walking to the section on "Divorce Attorneys" just in case.
Nonetheless, after three new pinholes in this pinhead, I'm now safe I'm ready to take these flu bugs on head on and hope for the best.
Stay tuned.
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