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Today is the 11th day of the fifth month and the 132nd day of 2016. It is also Wednesday, the midpoint in a very long work week, and: - Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day – you want that before or after taxes et al?
- Eat What You Want Day – did that all last week and gained three pounds!
- Hostess Cupcake Day
- National Foam Rolling Day
- National Night Shift Workers Day
- National Receptionists' Day
- National Root Canal Appreciation Day
- National Third Shift Workers Day
- National Twilight Zone Day
- School Nurse Day
In 330 Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but you probably would know it as Constantinople. In 868 a copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book – or as the British Library described it, “the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book”.
So I went to the doctor’s and had a physical [ or is that got a physical? Was subjected to a physical?] Was told that I am overweight and am officially obese – according to some guru, I should be between 104 - 135 lbs – seriously, haven’t they changed those charts since I was a teenager? And not content with this medical visit, in the interests of doing preventive maintenance, I should now: get a shingles and pneumonia vaccination; see a dentist, an ophthalmologist, a dermatologist and a podiatrist; get a breast exam; and have a bone density test done.
And here we run into the issues of what folks should do versus what they actually will do. While all of those suggestions are extremely good ideas, there was no discussion of how I can afford to take the time off work and or how I am going to cover the costs that Medicare and CIGNA do not cover. That is not her role. Her role is to tell me the best way to take care of me, the rest is my problem, neh? If I was more affluent, if I was less dependent on working, I would probably go and do these things before they are necessities…. Would doing them now extend my life expectancy or the quality of life while I am living? It would certainly tilt the odds in my favor, but it isn’t going to change the inevitable outcome. IMNSHO, FWIIW: we all live until we die and tomorrow is promised to no one. And as Redd Fox [funny I thought it was something George Carlin did a routine about] once commented, “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
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