Tomorrow I am having 4 hours of testing done to relieve an overactive mind caused by, hopefully, an overactive radiologist. I am as proactive as it gets when it comes to health care. At 66 I've been told that I no longer need a pap smear every year or a mammogram. Did my doctors make that decision? No, the government did. I choose to pay for them myself. My old smoker's lungs needed a CT scan to monitor existing nodules. The government says that since I quit smoking 30 years ago instead of 15 years ago it wasn't necessary. I paid for that myself. I don't mind paying for things that monitor the only early warning signals that our body's send us. But every time that I hand over my credit card to pay for something like this, I wonder about the folks that can't afford to pay. Do they just have to wait until a symptom is undeniable enough to run a test? I don't want to live forever. Where's the fun in that. But I do want to live for my allotted years and do that in as healthy a body as possible. Then I want that "off switch" that I discuss constantly with my Creator.
