The doctor recently told me that my haemoglobin levels are too high.
I need to have a series of tests to ascertain why, but in the meantime he has put me on a daily dose of Aspirin.
Last year, I was advised that my blood sugar level was too high… bordering on being classed as diabetic.
I was advised (ordered) to change my diet.
Just before that, a consultant advised me that my calcium levels are too high.
If I don’t get the levels down through a change of diet, he is threatening to rip some gland out of my neck.
And (apparently) my blood pressure has been too high for the past two years.
So why do I feel absolutely fine?
I have an annual health check (it’s part of the entry fee for being a member of the ‘heart attack survivor’ club. The health check is a two-part thing, For the first part I toddle along to the clinic and Nursey McNurseface takes the piss and (a hell of a lot of) blood (three or four vials of the stuff. I had an empty arm!) and various measurements (hello big boy), then waves a fond farewell saying we’ll see each other in a few weeks. Except we don’t. She rings me up, says ‘hello big boy’ and runs through all of the findings, every category that my blood has been tested against. Yet again, last month, she said I’m the healthiest heart attack survivor she’s ever had on her bed. Yet again she tells me that everything is perfectly healthy. I feel great, but it’s nice to get this validation from her. If I were you, I’d listen to the experts, it doesn’t matter what you feel like, they know better
Oh, I’m sure they do.
But it’s difficult to make lifestyle changes when you actually feel fit and healthy.
Feeling fine is another way of saying I am getting used to feeling this way.
Actually, that’s a very fair point.
I have had few of the highs before.. and been borderline.
It’s only a small step to get over that border, so you take care.