Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Disease
I am not really a hypochondriac, because I don't imagine symptoms. Rather, I would term myself a disease-a-holic. I find real symptoms- like thirst, tingly feet, and headaches then team them up to equal diabetes. For example.
I seem to be the champion of well-researched self diagnosis. This is not a good thing.
Maybe the best thing to do is just floss, exercise, sleep lots and eat well. That way, maybe I'll live to be 92.
Speaking of living to be 92...my aunt and uncle were telling me a story this weekend about neighbours of theirs who died a number of years ago. They were a married couple, he was 92 and she was 90. She had been sick and it was time for her to go to a nursing home. They decided they couldn't live without each other and they went into the woods and he shot her and himself. The crazy part is, he spent all afternoon the day before cutting the lawn.
I am not really a hypochondriac, because I don't imagine symptoms. Rather, I would term myself a disease-a-holic. I find real symptoms- like thirst, tingly feet, and headaches then team them up to equal diabetes. For example.
I seem to be the champion of well-researched self diagnosis. This is not a good thing.
Maybe the best thing to do is just floss, exercise, sleep lots and eat well. That way, maybe I'll live to be 92.
Speaking of living to be 92...my aunt and uncle were telling me a story this weekend about neighbours of theirs who died a number of years ago. They were a married couple, he was 92 and she was 90. She had been sick and it was time for her to go to a nursing home. They decided they couldn't live without each other and they went into the woods and he shot her and himself. The crazy part is, he spent all afternoon the day before cutting the lawn.
