If there is one thing I have learned it is that everyone has some sort of agenda. Eye doctors think nothing is more important than every little test they can perform and heart doctors feel that without each one of their services a life is at risk. Dentists are diehard fans of those things each one specializes in and so it goes.
Most of us understand that there is a limit. Money is usually the first one. Who can afford to do everything every dentist and doctor wants? And experience has shown it isn’t even necessary. Nearly forty years ago two very good dental experts told me emphatically that unless I had surgery on my gums right away my teeth were gone!
Not only are they still here, they are in pretty good shape by anyone’s standards.
Limit number two is time. If I went to every appointment and tried to do everything everyone told me; I would have time for very little else.
Limit number three is endurance. There must be some quality to life and if most of it is spent obsessing over my health what is the point?
Life is a crapshoot. Common sense and a sense of what is important to me are the guidelines I use. I want quality over everything else. Better ten years of this than thirty years of misery.
Only you can make the decisions that affect you, but better for it to be you than someone else. If there is one place you need to be in charge, it is over your own life.
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