The dreaded annual physical!!

I had been neglecting to get it done...in like FOREVER!!!

Like my dear friend Venky says, I'm a wise old man who's not getting any younger as the years pass him by!! Finally setup an appointment with an "internal medicine" specialist...

Had to fast for 12 hours before going there so my bloodwork would be accurate! Then, when I showed up, I had to fill out forms for 25 minutes (and that too writing at a FURIOUS pace!). Man, no wonder I'd been putting it off all these years! :-)

I was whisked into the good Doctor's chambers....pretty young chap, a Dr. Agarwal. Went into family history and all that jazz, checked BP, weight etc,. and declared that from a BMI standpoint, I was perfectly where I needed to be. Sometimes, I wonder about the BMI calculation - I dont think it is a good enough Indicator of overall health. I consider it nothing more than the most basic rudimentary measure....but I digress!

Coming to the interesting part - I had been warned by my colleagues at work (yeah, we discuss things like this in gory detail) about the dreaded DIGITAL Exam...that had NOTHING whatsoever to do with the digital world or numbers, if you catch my drift!! ;-)
I was pretty hesitant to bring it up initially...for obvious reasons!

Once he'd completed the blood draw, he declared flatly (as in with no emotion) that he wanted to check my test tickles (please to read fastly please!). I knew that my time had come...where I would face my enemy bravely to the death! In reality, it was a quick drop my pants, nudge nudge, Chassis OK!, transmission OK!, feel feel, Check Engine Light OFF!, All Systems OK!, pull my pants up and DONE!!
WAHOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I did it!! I am DA MAN!!! :-)

The part that I didn't like was that he was trying to make small talk when this critical process was going on, like asking me how long I have been in the area etc,...I was like DUUUUDE!!! Just get it over with and then we can talk all you want...OK?

I launched the offensive next...and equally flatly (as in with no emotion) asked him if there was a need for a DIGITAL exam. He said that since my family didn't have a history of cancer, there was no need to do it until I was 40....WAHOOOOOO!!!!! Sweet Jesus, I bought another 6 years of time!!

I was cool with that....and so in the end, it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd anticipated it to be...my uni-directional valve can stay that way for some more time and all is well with the world! :-)