When you arrive at my age (69) doctor appointments abound. There’s an old saying that “After 50, it’s all maintenance.” So true! Two weeks ago, I had my yearly urology appointment. Everything is good. My PSA was 1.0. I just had my bi-annual physical with my internist. By blood pressure was 124/72. Pulse: 72. Respiration: 18. A1C: 6.1. And, I lost a few pounds since my last appointment in June! My internist complemented me on my outstanding kidney function!
This past year has seen too many of our friends going to the ER, to the hospital, to Rehab. My Christmas Eve wish for all of you is a healthy and happy 2019!
Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to you and your family, George!
Prashant, thanks for your good wishes! I hope you and your family have a happy and healthy Holiday Season, too!
Maybe you can use the kidney thing as a pick-up line in bars. Lemme give it some thought and see if I can come up with something snappy.
The last time I went in for a physical the Dr said it bothered him to see a man like me enjoying good health when everyday decent folks suffer and die.
Dan, I’m always amused by those drug commercials on TV that advise “Talk to your doctor to make sure your heart is healthy enough for sex.”
Dan, we have a saying in German:
Schlechten Leuten geht es immer gut!
Loosely translated:
Bad people are always in good health/circumstances … 🙂
Great news on the checkup, George. The only good thing about being mostly stuck in the house with broken shoulder is that we are mostly eating at home and Jackie has been cooking more. We’re more careful about what we eat and we have both list at least a few pounds in the last two weeks. Let’s all hope for a very healthy New Year for all of us!
Jeff, health is EVERYTHING! Diane, Patrick, Katie, and I will be taking a turkey dinner to our friend Cindy’s house tonight. Since her stroke at Thanksgiving, she’s recovered somewhat, but she can’t prepare a Christmas feast for her family like she used to. In addition to the turkey, we’re bringing a cranberry salad, massed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, artichokes, pumpkin pie, and a bottle of champagne. I feel like I’m part of MEALS ON WHEELS!
Good for you guys. A stroke takes time to recover from.
Jeff, Cindy is recovering from her stroke, but her husband has Parkinson’s. Not a good situation…
What a nice dinner for your friend. Good for you for sharing your holiday.
Patti, Patrick and Katie are helping with the food preparation. It’s a family endeavor to help our friends who are struggling this time of year.
Congratulations, George, for your health – and I hope your wife is also fit enough to cook for the Holiday Season …
Just wait until you get to my age – my wife and I often have to tell people that we were born during WW2, but we still have sex regularly … 🙂
I wish everybody here a wonderful holiday season and a Merry and healthy New Year 2019!
Though I’m a latecomer here I’ve enjoyed your discussions very much – though we probably won’t visit the States again it’s good to hear from you (and not from Trump …)!
PS:
We have a saying in German:
If you’re over 70 and wake up in the morning without any pain – then you’re probably dead …
Wolf, when we first moved to this building 30 years ago, we were among the younger residents, and there were a lot of older people. I held open the front door for an older woman (who, by coincidence, was German) and she said something in German, then translated it, a “Don’t get old.” Now I know what she meant.
Wolf, thank you for your wishes for our Good Health. My wife is in better shape than I am! She’s on less medication, too (I’m a big believer in “Better Living Through Chemistry”). No pain, just annoying aches that I banish with Motrin.
I’m also a “chemistry user – many years ago the doc found my blood pressure too high and then started medications, and every few years more pills were added, so now I take five in the morning, three in the evening. Just talked to him whether we couldn’t reduce this but he clearly said: NO!
Crazy fact:
That first diagnosis was on 9/11! I’ll never forget that after the visit to the doc I went into a furniture store and saw customers and salespeople looking at a tv screen showing the fall of the Twin Towers. And of course I had to remember that in the 80s I was once invited into the restaurant “Windows to the world” there with its fantastic panorama of New York City. We took the elevator straight from the ground floor to the 99th (or 100th?) floor …
PS and back to the topic:
The urologist a few weeks ago gave me a prescription for Tamsulosin (Flomax) for my BPH too …
@Everybody:
Please stay healthy in 2019!
I believe that was originally a catch phrase for Dupont Chemical Co.
Rick, you are correct about “Better Living Through Chemistry” being a Dupont advertising slogan. One of my College roommates was a Chemical Engineering major and used that tagline all the time.
George, best holiday wishes for you, Diane, Patrick and Katie. May the new year bring health, happiness, and big fat books!
Jerry, thanks for the best Holiday Wishes! The same to you and your family! I have a bunch of Big Fat Books waiting to be read. But they’ll have to wait until 2019.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve, guys.
Rick, we’re about to pack up the Rogue with the turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry salad, and pumpkin pie and drive to Lockport when our friend and her family reside. It’s snowing here now so the roads will be slick. It may take us a little extra time to get there.
And Happy Festivus for the rest of us!
This is the first I’ve heard of a Meyerson having a broken shoulder. Is it Jeff? Heal quickly, pilgrim!
I liked the idea of massed potatoes over mashed potatoes! Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!
Yes, it’s me, Cap’n. Not fun, let me add.
Bob, we had plenty of “massed” potatoes for our friends. Lake Effect snow slowed us down, but we finally made it to their house to deliver the Christmas Eve feast!