If you're 65 years old or older, you will easily relate to this blog.
If you're under that ripe old age, it could serve as a heads up.
So with Medicare you get one free general exam per year (listen to your lungs, take your BP, etc) - nothing really in depth.
A blood screening will be ordered for the usual and that's pretty much it.
Not so quick there buster. Here come the questions.
Have you fallen in the last several weeks?
Do you find sorting your meds difficult?
And many more little reminders of just how old you are now.
They're livable.
Then . . . come the three words that you have to repeat and will be asked later in the question and answer period to repeat them again.
I flunked this phase of "fun" the first time it happened. Sure wish I'd had a heads up. That's why I'm here today helping you young 'uns out.
I went in with a strategy this time. All prepped and ready to go.
I heard the words and created a picture in the air of each one and gave them all the same color.
I kept looking at that "picture" and repeating the words (in my head; I didn't want to appear crazy) and passed with flying colors.
Whew.
Don't ask me what the words were. Yes, I still know them but just in case they're used in all the doctors' offices all over the country you're going to have to work out your own strategy.
I'm a nice older lady but not that nice.
