So, last night I had another visit with my doctor. I had gone for blood tests about a week ago and scheduled this apointment at that time to discuss the results. One of his staff-members brought me into one of the treatment room and "interviewed" me about my visit and then said, "The Doctor will be in shortly."
So I was waiting. The door was open and my doctor passed by, made eye-contact with me, and kept walking, which is actually unusual for him...he usually gives me a jovial greeting, but I figured he was just busy. A few minutes later, he came to the door, again unusually quiet, grabbed my chart, the started to chuckle. He said, "You want a funny compliment? I thought you were a new patient. I didn't recognize you." Fun stuff.
Anyway, we talked and he said that my blood results were EXACTLY what doctors look for in their patients. He was pleased, but then saddened that I was requesting to come off the 1/2 dose of cholesterol medicines I was still on. The way he saw it, the results were too perfect to mess with. But I begged him to give me 3 months off the meds, and he relented. So, I "dropped" the blood-pressure meds last spring and now, at least for 3 months, I dropped the cholesterol meds. I'm hoping that my results will be similar in February as they were now and I won't need to go back on them.
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