A few years ago, about the same time that we built the house, I started feeling some chest pains. But I didn’t really worry that much about it but after a while although it didn’t get worse it didn’t go away. Describing the symptoms was pretty hard but if I had felt shooting pain in my left arm I’m pretty sure I’d met all the criteria for a heart attack or something.
And having lost his best friend 9 years ago to a heart attack you’d think I’d be more worried and lookup a doctor for it. But nope, not me. I’m the kind of guy that just lives with it since my Restless Leg Syndrome and my tinnitus is more troublesome than this.
Well a few weeks ago I had the annual physical and I decided to mention this to this nurse and she didn’t think it was much to worry about but still set me up with a specialist. Thankfully we have a very good health insurance at work so I got an appointment within a week. He wasn’t the least bit worried and just said it’s my asthma acting up prescribed me inhalers (that I haven’t used regularly since my teens!) and said he’d call me back in a few weeks. I was very skeptical that asthma can present itself like this, like your chest collapsed. But I’m not the one to argue so I went along.
Yesterday he called me and asked how it was going. And when I thought about it I realised that I hadn’t felt it since… well since I started the inhalers! So I guess the dude knew what he was talking about. And he set up a prescription for more inhalers and when I asked for how long I should be using this he just said “for life”. Literally, that’s what he said. In English too! Although I can’t say I’m one of those people who’ll die if I don’t get my meds because I’ve lived with these symptoms for years.
I just hope my son doesn’t have any of this crap!
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