I've got one of those health MOTs today
The doctors just messaged me in the week and invited me in.
I know a few people don't like these, as they don't like doctors getting all righteous about their lifestyle habits, but I seem to be with a decent surgery, and in the past, they've just taken their samples and asked their questions without judgement
At my age, I really don't mind mind having the odd check up to make sure everything is ticking over as it should be, and if they get a bit too personal, I can always tell them to shush
Besides, it's the only MOT I can pass these days
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"Is your house warm enough? Can you afford to heat it?"
She asked me if I smoke, drink or eat red meat; when I said no to all three (and ‘yes’ to a lot of walking as exercise), she looked somewhat baffled, then said, ‘Er….I don’t think there’s anything I can say to you then’.
(The follow-up cholesterol test result set alarm bells ringing, though, all red printed figures and ‘see a dietician about a low-cholesterol diet and speak to your doctor about statins’.
When I actually crunched the numbers myself, I was ‘over’ by O.1 mmol/L - well within the acceptable margin for error and bang on the level associated with lowest mortality rates in a Finnish study - so I ignored it and they haven’t bothered me since.)
Stonyground.
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