So I get home from work after a long, long day, and there are two new messages on the machine.
The first is the Red Cross, wanting my blood. OK, maybe. Last time I went they turned me away because I was on antibiotics for a sinus infection. I quit taking the antibiotics last week. But my sinuses are hurting again. So do I still have an infection? And if I do, should I just give blood anyway, and not mention it? My sinuses tend to get this way whether I’m on the meds or not. I’m not even positive it’s an infection. When you get to be my age, something usually feels lousy. I delay a decision. See how I feel tomorrow.
Then I listen to the second message, or the beginning of it:
If you’re age 50 to 85, please listen to this message. Finally, affordable burial assistance is available…
I hit the "delete."
You see, this is why I could never go into sales. I just don’t have the knack that these professionals do for making the prospective customer feel good about the product.
Happy upcoming birthday to me.
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The threshhold of not being a spring chicken any more hit with a one-two punch in a single week a few years ago. First, one of my students asked me about an “oldie” song – “hit me with your shot…something like that?”
I replied, “hit me with your best shot” Pat Benetar?!?!? That’s an oldie?!??! I listened to that in high school.
Later, as I went onto USC campus, a pretty co-ed walked up to me, “Sir, do you have the time?”
SIR!?!??!
Brad, on the sinus issue, here is my advice. There is a good possibility you have a chronic tooth infection. The tooth may not be causing you pain, as for example, you can develop an infection in a tooth that has been root canaled. See a dentist and have him xray and check for a deep infection. I went for 2 years back and forth with sinal infections. Allergy specialists, the works. The dentist then yanked one tooth that he saw deep infection in the root canal. For a year now I havent even had a sniffle. Who knows?
Now, there’s an interesting possibility I haven’t considered. And I thought I had considered them all.
I’ve even been defying the docs and looking at “alternative” explanations. After becoming convinced that I had a yeast sensitivity, I’ve been on a yeast-free diet for a week or so (no beer!), but no luck.
Sure sign that you are old: still using a “machine” to receive your phone messages.
In this day and age, a landline phone couldn’t be more useless or more of a waste of money.
In regards to your sinuses, Claritin D is manna from heaven. The mold count is ridiculously high right now. I don’t su’port spores.
Brad, I hope you find the cause of the sinus issue. It about drove me batty. And repeated infections drain all your energy as it weakens your body. Hope you find that source like I did. It makes a 100% difference to get rid of that.
I felt kind of old when my 12-year-old said she thought Queen was one of the best rock groups around today, and I had to tell her that the song she liked was about 30 years old. But then I really felt old when I picked up the sports page of your fine publication the other day and read about a high school senior coming to play for the Gamecocks next year – and then realized I played Pop Warner and high school football with the kid’s dad.