A Little Rant

I have got to go to the clinic this morning to get the blood work done for my doctor's appointment next Friday.  If I go when it opens at 7:45 it takes me less time to get it done than going later in the day so I usually get out there right as they open.  The only 'problem' with getting the blood work done is I have to fast completely for 8 hours before going.  No food, no soda, no tea, all I am allowed is water during that 8 hour period.  I know it does not sound like such a big deal, but I find water boring to drink and I usually do not go 8 hours while awake without eating some little something or another.  Sometimes I find all this health care stuff to be a little annoying.  Up until I had my stroke a couple of years ago, I did not regularly go to the doctor, in fact I had not been in several years at the time.  In the last two years I have spent more on health care than in the previous 20.  I have heretofore always felt myself to be healthy as a horse and truth be told, I still feel pretty much the same way.  However it cost me more money now to maintain that somewhat illusory feeling.  I don't know why we can't have a more economical health care system in this country.  It is true that I participate in the public health system, otherwise I would not be able to afford what health care I do get.  If not for that, I would not be going to the doctor at all.  What I really wonder is if I did not participate as I do, would it really make a difference in the way I feel?  Sometimes I think it does not really make a difference in my physical well being but just puts a dent in my wallet.  I don't suppose I would really know unless I stopped going to the doctor.  For now I will continue as I really do not want to take a chance on not enjoying what quality of life that I now have.  So I guess it is spend the money and take my medicines as I should according to the doctors.  I wish I could just fucking live and the doctors be damned.

At any rate I have a musical interlude you should like today in the Piano Quartet Number 2, Opus 26 by Johannes Brahms from an excellent 1969 recording by Maria Yudina (piano), Feodor Druzhinin (viola), Dmitri Tzyganov (violin) and Sergei Shirinsky (cello).  Following the video is this week's edition of nubile young men who are Naked or Nearly So to prime you for your weekend adventures.  Thanks for visiting, see you again tomorrow.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!