What's Up Doc?

When the kids were little, every other week we were in the doctor's office due to an infection or bizarre-looking rash. Doc would send me off with a prescription or advice for the kids' ailments and off we'd go. As Mike and I are approaching middle age, it's us that always seem to be in the doctor's office with an infection or bizarre-looking rash. The only difference is, when we go to the doctor we are required to get blood tests, hand over stool samples and God only knows what else Doc has up his sleeve that day (besides our colons).

I think Doc has a colon-cleansing fetish. ......

Doc told me to eat a salad every day. I can do that .....I love salads! I may miss a day or two because, face it, I don't have somebody making my meals for me. Doc told me to take Metamucil every day. That I cannot do. I'm okay with the taste of it, believe it or not, but it's the painful side effects it has on me. Doc tells me I need to soak in the bath tub 2-3 times a day with epsom salts. Ummm, I don't have somebody to run my bath and yell "You're bath is ready, Rebecca!" so I'm shooting for 2 times a week?? .....maybe?? Doc tells me to drink more water. Ookaaay, if I drink more water my back teeth will start floating but I'll see what I can do. Doc says come back in ten days and tell me how it's going. Oh yeah, I'll come back. "I love coming to see you!" (I get the over-the-glasses look again.)

I know I need to exercise...doing stretches just doesn't cut it...especially for my heart. I don't want to end up like my parents  --  over-worked and out of shape.

I figured I did pretty good when I stopped smoking in 2006. I quit that nasty habit with the help of nicotine gum. Gum was probably not the best solution because then I was addicted to that for 10 years. When I talked to my doctor about it, 3 years into the gum addiction, he told me that it was better than smoking. Okay, good. My jaw took a beating all those years but eventually I got off of that too.

I know I'm getting older and for the most part I'm okay with that....although I thought I just turned 18 until recently when I couldn't find my reading glasses and they were on the top of my head. Hmmm. I was looking for those things for quite some time too.

Thankfully, hubby and I have never had very serious health issues but as we're aging and dangling around the half-century mark, we're seeing our health in a new light. But Doc, do we really need to go through all the colon-cleansing? I think he needs to calm down with that.....is this his addiction, I wonder?