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Hi, again! I'm reminded of the 91 yr old gal up the street whose doc would love to see her every 6 weeks. Know why? Because insurance will cover one 'well' appt. every 6 wks when patient is over 90. Nothing wrong with the old girl... takes no meds but BP pill but she only takes 1/2 pill every other day because she has NEVER had HBP but doc said 'because of your age....'. She lets him think she takes it as prescribed (1 pill/day!). She also takes a regular aspirin every night because she has aches, and why wouldn't she at 91 having worked about a million hours in her garden! She won't take a baby aspirin as they are a ripoff, being priced at double the cost of full dosage aspirin. She figures she doing good for her heart and her aches by taking the 1 aspirin but always has it with a mouthful of milk and one cookie. She eats vegetables like crazy and actually salivates when I walk her through the produce section!
Recently she had a 'bigger' pain in her hip so went to doc who gave her 3 scrips. One for muscle relaxer, one for sleep med, one for antibiotic. She called me and said she was throwing them all away... will they hurt the water supply? I took them to the dump recycle box at the police station for her and thought what a champion she is. That's when I started taking her to the chiropractor where she finds great relief and has developed a crush on the 32 yr old chiropractor. She walks faster than she had been and without a cane half the time. She still works in the garden but not with the same vigor. I think her prayers would be answered if she died face down in the garden dirt..... not doped up and wrapped in blankets on a rocker.
We simply must LIVE until we die and the only way is to follow the natural course of everything.
Janice