“Over the last few weeks I just keep getting these night sweats. I’m all achy and tired… I just don’t feel good. I’ve checked my temperature and it’s gone over 101 degrees several times in the last few weeks.” Mrs. Brown looked moderately ill, but after a physical...
“I keep getting this sharp stabbing pain from the corner of my mouth to the angle of my jaw. It feels almost like a jabbing electric shock and it’s excruciating. After that it starts getting better slowly over a few minutes. But I keep wondering when the next one’s...
“So, my cholesterol’s running high? It’s probably all those eggs I’m eating. Give me a couple of months and I can fix that with my diet. I don’t want a heart attack… but I also don’t want to be on one of those statin drugs. Who wants something that saves your...
“I’ve just been coughing up a little bit of junk … kind of sore in the chest when I do cough. I’ve got a bit of fever too. But overall I’m just really tired the last couple of days and winded when I go up the stairs. You think my smoking is finally catching up with...
“Did you see I was in the ER last week? I’d been shopping at Walmart and started getting all short of breath, chest pressure, heart pounding… I was sure I was having a heart attack. But they did the work-up, drew some blood, did an EKG, even put me on a treadmill…...
So here we are entering into a new year. Typically the gyms experience a wave of increased activity only to see it flatten out after a few weeks. Myriads of well-intentioned folks join up to make this the year that they get in shape, only to fall off the exercise...
