In my unexpected four-day furlough last week I was able to fit in my annual check-up. Went to Uptown because my doctor moved and I wanted to move with him. He offered a blood panel, where I get pricked and my blood sample gets tested for everything. He thought it could wait till next year, but I thought, what the heck, let's do it now.
Got my results back. Everything was normal ... except LDL, my bad cholesterol. It was high. This may have been the first time I have ever been high for something like that.
And that's when my mortality sort of hit me. I'm not the young person I imagine myself to be anymore, running around everywhere, metabolism off the charts, able to eat everything and still see my ribs when I suck my breath in. I now have to watch what I eat and shit like that.
Well, maybe I'll watch it tomorrow. I went to a United season-ticketholder dinner and I was offered seconds. And right now I'm at Caffetto eating a slice limoncello marscapone cake and a coffee. Yeah, this isn't good for my LDL.
(shakes head)
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