I just remembered an old Tamil movie in which Thengai Srinivasan says that we gobble up medicines like CroCIN, TerramyCIN, AnaCIN and GlycoCIN only because we have committed so many SINS in our life. If I agree, I am probably the worst SINNER in this world… or should I say that I am the best (don’t you think that in the sinner category the worst is the best or best is the worst?).
About a month back when I took the most advanced, latest HbA1C test to check my Diabetes level it showed NORMAL. I went to see my doc with glee but he insisted on me taking the regular Fasting sugar level and Postprandial Hyperglycemia. In that report there was some little skewing of those numbers. Now it was the Doc’s turn to be in glee. He is one of those who belong to the old school of thought in the medicine world. Phoo phooing the modern techniques he declared with triumph that I am a ‘Border Case’ diabetic… neither here nor there types. But nine years back I was a confirmed diabetic and thru’ regular exercises and strict diet I had managed to keep the disease at bay. But now the medico is saying I don’t belong anywhere. I am upset because I want to belong to one category. I don’t want to be like a member of the third gender… hijra… when it comes to diabetes. I’m sure that I don’t want to be abnormal.
Now let me come to the Cholesterol Test. The cholesterol ratio is normal… as per the report “accurately quantifying the HDL and LDL/ VLDL in 20uL serum in 96-well plate the HDL and LDL/VLDL assay, is in the normal range – less than 0.3.” Again the doc started with ‘BUT’. “But your individual HDL level – GOOD Cholesterol is low and it is a cause for concern.” I didn’t know what to say. Never knew that even cholesterol is categorized as GOOD and BAD just like human beings. Probably they also SIN to various levels to be classified like this.
As Martha Bolton said “you know you are getting old when… you start buying Geritol by the six-pack”. In my case it is GlycoSIN and AtorvastaSIN : )
About a month back when I took the most advanced, latest HbA1C test to check my Diabetes level it showed NORMAL. I went to see my doc with glee but he insisted on me taking the regular Fasting sugar level and Postprandial Hyperglycemia. In that report there was some little skewing of those numbers. Now it was the Doc’s turn to be in glee. He is one of those who belong to the old school of thought in the medicine world. Phoo phooing the modern techniques he declared with triumph that I am a ‘Border Case’ diabetic… neither here nor there types. But nine years back I was a confirmed diabetic and thru’ regular exercises and strict diet I had managed to keep the disease at bay. But now the medico is saying I don’t belong anywhere. I am upset because I want to belong to one category. I don’t want to be like a member of the third gender… hijra… when it comes to diabetes. I’m sure that I don’t want to be abnormal.
Now let me come to the Cholesterol Test. The cholesterol ratio is normal… as per the report “accurately quantifying the HDL and LDL/ VLDL in 20uL serum in 96-well plate the HDL and LDL/VLDL assay, is in the normal range – less than 0.3.” Again the doc started with ‘BUT’. “But your individual HDL level – GOOD Cholesterol is low and it is a cause for concern.” I didn’t know what to say. Never knew that even cholesterol is categorized as GOOD and BAD just like human beings. Probably they also SIN to various levels to be classified like this.
As Martha Bolton said “you know you are getting old when… you start buying Geritol by the six-pack”. In my case it is GlycoSIN and AtorvastaSIN : )
This reminds me of my colleague who was suffering from back ache for a long time.He was so used to it that on any day if he did not get the pain, he was getting worried.
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