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Aging Before My Time
Monday, February 09, 2009
My life has become like the Curious Case of Benjamin Button...except in reverse! Wait...isn’t that just normal aging?
Well, it’s not normal aging. I’m only 31 but this past week has really thrown me under the bus. I knew I had hit a bad point when the medication I was receiving was the same as those prescribed to my 85-year-old fake patient I used to use to train an electronic medical record system.
It all began with allergies. Then it was followed by your average case of ear congestion. I couldn’t hear out of my right ear for 4 days. On the fourth day, I was walking through the parking lot into the office and suddenly my right ankle gave out on me, and I slammed into one of the adjacent cars. Thinking I was just clumsy, sleepy, hungry or not caffeinated enough, I moved on. But by the time I had taken care of those needs, it became overwhelming apparent that the world was spinning around me.
At first I walked slowly. Then I called the advice nurse and also separately emailed two doctors. All reported back to me at different time: GO SEE A DOCTOR TODAY! After a quick trip to Urgent Care, some allergy meds and a bottle of meclizine for the vertigo later, I was driving home. Yes, driving. Oh well. I was pretty much over the dizziness by then…
So now I carry around a baggy full of meds. All I need now is one of those “days of the week” pill carriers, and I’d be complete. Oh and did I mention my ulnar neuropathy is coming back again? Curses! This is what I get for ignoring the needs of my body for a year and a half!
And didn’t I just say I wouldn’t get sick again in ‘09? Dream big. Fall gently. And preferably not into parked cars.