Like I needed a shot in the arm!

Two doctor visits in two days.  Two shots. No, I am not sick.  I am very seldom sick enough to visit the doctor.  I take some cholesterol medicine that requires blood work every six months. The last time I was at the doctor's office was when I sprained my ankle, therefore when I have to get my prescription refilled I have to be checked over.  You know the routine, blood pressure, weight (ouch), height, temp and breath capacity.  Oh, you don't get your breath capacity checked out? 

I had asthma as a child. Pretty bad but not hospitilation worthy just yucky medicine and inhaler bad.  No playing outside in the damp morning air (really made it hard to make friends on the playground).  As I grew older the asthma got better but I developed the weirdest allergies.  If I had dairy after sunset I had an asthma attack.  This was awful during the summer when you had cranked ice cream all day.  The oddest things would make me start to sneeze and fill up with mucus.  The problem is that the mucus wasn't all in my head it was also in my intestinal tract. ( I know too much infomation!)  I nearly always will have an allergy attack if I drink red wine, beer or whiskey.  I was able to drink all the vodka and tequilla I could hold.  But this made me an outcast at softball games when everybody is having a good time but sober me.

Well, because of my allergy and astma history my doctor felt it was necessary for me to have a flu shot even though it is almost the end of flue season.  She also thought I should get a pneumonia shot to protect my lungs because it seems that pneumonia is bad on them.  Evidently I do not hold enough breath in my lungs.  Who knew! 

It sucked being young and now it is sucking being middle aged.  I loved my 30's and 40's.  I wanted to love my 50's.  It could still happen.