mayo on rye

life in scottsdale was full of adventure and new experiences.

you have not lived until a balding, chunky, sweaty, twenty-something man shaves your chest. that being said it beat having the hair ripped out by ekg tabs taped to the skin.

i am sure that somewhere near half the population would be thrilled if a succesful doctor gestured to them and said come have a seat next to my desk big boy. in my case he was the wrong sex and type.

watched a condo tower being built beside a concrete canal with the selling point being billed as waterfront property. the canal is about thirty feet across at best. shockingly at least to me each unit was selling for a million plus and they were almost all sold.

ordering a cheeseburger from a usually reliable diner and finding much to my surprise that their idea of a cheeseburger was cold cheese added along with the other condiments.

with all of the above excitemet it is a wonder that i actually found time to visit the mayo and go through the testing process.

i was poked and prodded by the best of them. bloodwork, pulmonary function test, cardiac stress test, ct scans of the sinuses and lungs, exploration of the nasal cavities and ear canals by a doctor actually wearing one of those silver discs on his forehead.

ten days and who know's how many thousands of dollars later this is what i know.

my heart is healthy, no blockage etc so no immediate risk of heart attack.

sinuses and ear canal's are good.

oxygen levels low normal but overall not horribly bad.

lungs clear of any horrible disease.

diagnosis: asthma and chronic bronchitis aggrevated by severe anxiety and stress.

solution: reduce stress and move someplace with cleaner air.

surgery would have been easier.

speaking of which. when i returned home i was having a great deal of abdominal pain. after another visit to the doctor i was informed that i have developed a ventral hernia which requires surgery. it is 10 cm long by 3 cm wide. the cause of such hernias chronic coughs.

at least it will give me something else to blog about.