My unpleasant maiden encounter with a doctor
Friday, November 26, 2010
In addition to my 'blessing' of never having had to make an appointment with a doctor, I have also not spent a night in a hospital bed for the past 30 years or so of my life. "I am very lucky," I have always said to myself. In the past whenever I felt pain, I would ignore it and it would just go away, that's how I have survived most of the three decades plus I have spent on planet earth.
However, something weird happened a few months ago when I started feeling chest pains. I tried to apply my usual technique of ignoring it with the hope that it would go away but this time around this did not work. Inspired by my recently acquired medical aid, I decided that "this one" needed the attention of a doctor.
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