The Physical: 2-29-08

I envisioned the physical as something out of a 50's dream: all black and white with me in a pair of white underwear and a nondescript voice saying "Cough." I was never sure why somebody said "cough" but you know that's the way it was portrayed.

Turns out most of the physical at this health center is done by the pulling of a couple of vials of blood that are sent off for some of the same tests as the biometric screening, but the results are more of an average over the last 90 days, rather than just the numbers of the day. I had a successful EKG, for which I am happy.

Triglycerides: 240
Cholesterol, total: 201
HDL: 31
LDL: 122
And the winner was Hemoglobin A1c, which for a non-diabetic is less than 6%. I was sporting 6.5

Yeah me! Well, that's written with some sarcasm.

So my health care provider told me the basics: Lower your blood pressure, lower your sugar, change your cholesterols and go exercise. She wants me to add fish into my diet 3 times a week. Or maybe twice. Well, any fish is added fish to me. That will help fix my cholesterol, she said. And of the typica "Watch what things have sugar in them."

So here we go.