Thursday, May 02, 2013

In medical news

Yesterday, I visited by GP for my annual check-up, which I hadn't had in two years. ha ha.

As he was putting the cuff on my arm to check my blood pressure, he said "So are you guys moving to the Middle East? How does the voting work? Don't the Americans want you to stay?" I started answering but I knew I was getting agitated, so I said asked him why did you ask me about this when you are taking my blood pressure? I can feel my blood pressure going up!  He laughed and said I was right, it was stupid of him to raise the issue while taking my BP.

My BP turned out to be higher than usual, but he said he would take the circumstances into consideration. It's still in the normal range, Middle East or no Middle East.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

While you're having your BP taken, you should be thinking happy thoughts...you know, visions of Mr. Aerobics dancing to the spinning vinyl of DJ-Coatcheck.

Knuckles

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Now I am very calm.

mshrms said...

no snow in cairo

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Yeah, just 50 Celsius. But it's a dry heat!