Our health insurance made us take a physical to 'assess our risks' and decide whether to fine us for being unfit. John passed because although he's hugely oversized, he has perfect blood work every single time he's tested (blood sugar is not one of their required tests, just blood pressure and cholesterol). Of course I failed... there goes a hundred bucks a month in penalties :( If I'm medicated enough to get my blood pressure to read 120/80 when I'm stressed out in the doctor's office (which I was until I made a fuss about it), I'm keeling over at home, and my blood pressure goes up and down like a yoyo depending on whether/how much asthma and pain medication I'm taking, and apparantly according to the phase of the moon because a lot of the variations seem to be entirely random! Not to mention the fact that it's pretty much impossible for me to exercise enough to control my weight, bp and cholesterol. I have a cane and a walker, for pete's sake! And sciatica that kicks in and shuts my legs down if I try to walk around the grocery store for more than 15 minutes... I just read the fine print on their reminder letter, and I might possibly be able to get a medical exemption because it's impossible for me to meet their 'healthy' criteria with my medical conditions/treatment, if I can get my doc to sign off on it. He thinks the requirements are ludicrous to begin with so he might go along with it. But there's only a week left until the deadline and we submitted my failing test on tuesday because we didn't think there was any way out of it... sigh. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting...
You know, I'm SICK of doctors and medicine and the whole medical industry in general. I don't want anything to do with them... I just want to forget that the word 'doctor' even exists. But no, I guess I'll keep on taking the stupid pills... I just wish I didn't need them. It would be really nice to have just one thing wrong with me that the medical profession could actually FIX rather than saying 'here, take these pills for the rest of your life, see you in six months.'
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