A word of advice. Don't schedule a physical examination on your birthday. The doctor may decide to give you the gift of "the works" at the exam. And the nurse may give you another one by looking at your EKG and saying, "Uh oh."
That's always fun.
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If your observation is based on a recent personal experience, then I would like to offer best wishes for your birthday, Gaius. Birthdays are a problem we all have once a year. As for the EKG, I can only hope the nurse was referring to the machine and not the readout. Hope a colonoscopy wasn’t included in ‘the works’.
Nonetheless, happy birthday.
Had “the works” last week. Amazingly it all looks good. Best wishes on your birthday and that everything comes out all right in the end.
Feeblemind, yes it was personal. Thanks for the kind words, everyone. But I have decided that I’m not having any more birthdays. My last present, an hour ago, was to fall on the ice. Stinking Gore effect.
“But I have decided that I’m not having any more birthdays.”
That could be interpreted as rather macabre after a “uh-oh” EKG reading…..
Oh, should have clarified that. The doctor said that the ‘abnormality’ the nurse saw was actually fairly normal, something that a lot of people have that causes no problems. Nothing to worry about. (My family also has no history of heart trouble.)
Sorry to hear you fell, Gaius. Is it just me, or have you also noticed how much harder the ground/ice gets as we age? Oh and BTW, have an extra piece of birthday cake for me and all the other readers of BCB. You deserve it.
I blame global hardening…
According to your About page, you have minor children. That makes it probable that you’re not even middle-aged yet. Wait until you’re 40 to complain about physicals.
Erm. I also have a 25 year old son who has done two tours in Iraq, Al. But I’ve decided to put birthdays on hold, so I’ll just say I’m 25 with a lot of years seniority. Let’s leave it at that.
Happy Birthday Gaius, A day late but maybe not a dollar short.
Forget about EKG’s they mean nothing.
Check out this Letter sent to Bali by 100 leading scientists
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=16400
My mother says I was in my playpen when JFK’s assassination was reported.
About five years ago, a physician’s assistant sent me to a cardiologist because she didn’t think my EKG looked “normal.” I was relieved after my stress test when the cardiologist got angry. He said my EKG did not look like a textbook example, but that there was nothing wrong with my heart. My mother is turning 73 tomorrow. Her mother almost made it to her ninety-third birthday. Her mother (my great-grandmother) also lived into her nineties. As unpleasant surprise during or after a physical can end up meaning nothing at all.
My worst birthday was turning 30. I haven’t been bothered by any since, though.
I have to agree with you about doctor’s appointments on one’s birthday. Just twelve months ago, my father sat across from his doctor who told him he had Alzheimer’s, on my father’s birthday.
Gaius, late happy birthday — did the whole family get together? Sorry about the ice reaching up and grabbing you. Nasty stuff. As for doctor appointments, glad the EKG turned out to be okay. I actually like to see the doc on my birthday because we celebrate that I’ve made it another year!