An expensive proposition

 Some of us need to have a yard sale, a garage sale, or a porch sale...a definitive downsizing...to know what is in the house. And, to find out where that receipt went, the one we need to take back...with that non-functioning blood pressure cuff to Walgreens. The cuff I don't even need.

Super stressed at one point, yer man can have symptoms of high blood pressure. If a doctor continues to take your blood pressure, like a worried grouchy father, you can almost guarantee it won't go be going down...as long as your sitting there spending a hundred fifty dollars just to sit in one of their rooms.

We are told to go in for a six-month checkup. For wellness. Whoever came up with that excuse had popsicles for brains because there's no good reason for it. The only one benefiting from it is the one benefiting from the money I paid them to have them ask me what is wrong. If I am going in for my wellness check, why is there something wrong?

It is a never-stopping merry-go-round, this thing they call "healthcare." We, the people, have to endure an industry that prescribes medicines with side effects that make you sick, that make you dizzy, lower your blood pressure, raise your blood pressure, make your face twitch, give you rashes, and interact with everything else you are on.

And, of course, the pharmacy texts you to demand you get a refill. A refill you may not need. Or want. When did the pharmacist suddenly try to take over my life? This is not good.

Last night, as I went to take a prescription my doctor told me I would need to take the rest of my life, I noticed that there were side effects that read like my morning waking up. Side effects I do not need. Nor does my body. 

I won't be taking that tonight before bed. If the side effect is worse than the condition, I think we have a problem. There are too many of these 'I think we have a problem" issues to continue to be that rat in the maze anymore. I am done with flippant diagnoses. I have passed the point of advocating for my health, I am taking it into my hands.

The best wellness is the one where your life includes a philosophy that is less stressful, a more naturally healthy life, without so many chemicals floating around in your body. My next doctor will be the one who adheres to that philosophy, not the one trying to control people's lives.