Nice to be reminded..? 19 11 21 (5) 25 2 23
Written in the main 19 11 20 in connection with my latest consultation...withdrawn shortly thereafter and today, 2019 12 9, republished after my blog taking another hit from one of my most loyal readers, a person of an Unknown Region...
When I was a child I was rarely troubled by my health save to say I had
a good many of the ailments children usually get to catch from other kids:
chicken pox, measles, mumps, various ear infections and throat conditions,
worms, head lice, warts, and in my case whooping cough, as the potentially most
serious, aside from mumps for boys if they don't have them before reaching
puberty, because of the attendant danger of becoming sterile, which, as I got
older meant a good many inoculations against other contagious diseases: things
like diphtheria and smallpox, especially later before long-distance
travelling, when protection against eg. cholera, hepatitis and such became
obligatory...
As a teenager already started working for a living, I caught a bout of Asian Flu and then a second time when I was a guest at my sister’s wedding in my 20's, when the variant was called “English Flu” which I picked it up during a weekend visit to England from Scandinavia, where I was living at the time.
But on the whole I considered myself a fairly healthy specimen to the extent when I first became a Manager and a junior colleague commented that the next day off work would be his first, I determined that I should endeavour likewise to be 20 years in the job without taking time off for ill health..?
In the event in my case I contracted hearing problems after reaching an age a little greater than his, due to a blockage in my sinuses, about 8 years later, which when I visited
this consultant, a Mr Anderson who checked out my hearing, discovered a
disparity from one ear to the other, which he diagnosed as a
result of the septum of my nose appearing to him as if a double decker bus had been driven over it: the result of a broken nose in my teenage years
from fighting other school boys, the undoubted reason.
Thereafter, following a minor operation to return my ability to breathe through both nostrils again, I left the company without further off-sickness after a total
of 13 years’ service, to join the last company to employ me when I worked a
further 14 years before being struck down by one of the curses of my father’s
family: a big myocardial infarction which had swept away my paternal grandfather
aged around 50, his only daughter likewise, and one of her sons aged 59 and her
eldest son, the recipient of bypass surgery, as was about to be conducted on me,
thankfully no longer such a younger man.
But from that time I have variously been very appreciative of the care
administered on my account by the various Health Services I have had occasion
to call upon, but none better than the treatment I received today in a
telephone call with my current lady doctor when we discussed my thyroxine
levels which have been subject to variation this past 10 years, and when the
supplementary doses administered have varied thus 1 x 25 microgram (µg) tablet
daily; increased to 2 tablets; increased to 3 tablets; then reduced back to 2 tablets; then an increase to 2,5 tablets daily and now, today, to 2 days per week taking 2, and 5 days taking 3
tablets, with another follow up blood test to be conducted after
another month…
The swings and roundabouts of caring for one's health..? 19 11 21 (5)
On the day following the third month i got to meet my eldest grandson who will be 26 this time next month: a lovely day out visiting another of the capital's museums when we visited an exhibition of Reider Säristöniemi's prodigious collection of canvases collected in one places from a variety of owners of his work: particularly of interest to me following my five successive years of Lapland visits collecting a number of Anders Alariesto's prints and plates of Sami scenes, locally from second-hand stores.
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