They’re Closing In, Dementia, and Furthermore
by Barry Bauer
Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, banned soft drinks in containers larger than 16oz. as if that’s going to cure the obesity problem with fast food consumers. It doesn’t matter whether he has a right to do that or not, he just did it. What’s next with him, banning beer served in anything larger than a shot glass and you’ll only get one an hour?
Turns out the government thinks their mission in life is to protect us from ourselves. I didn’t realize that I’m my own worst enemy. I always thought it was a foreign government wanting to destroy us. That was the federal government’s original charge, to protect us from enemies outside our borders. So now the enemy of the United States is its people. Are these guys nuts or are we nuts for putting up with this nonsense?
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I went to the doctor’s office to get my prescriptions renewed and found that things have changed a little with how they deal with Medicare patients. First they gave me an eye test and I could barely see the chart. That was before I had an eye exam and got new glasses. Next they checked my height without shoes (first time). I’m guessing they suspected I was wearing elevator shoes. Of course they weighed me. Following that the nurse directed me to the examination room.
She got on her computer, asked a few questions, and then gave me a “pop” quiz. That was the first time for me since high school. First she gave me three words to remember. Then I was given a sheet of paper with a circle drawn on it and asked me to fill in the clock and indicate the time. Of course I didn’t read the instructions, after all I’m a guy who normally doesn’t.
Well, I flunked the test.
The doctor said these test indicate the early onset of Dementia or Alzheimer’s and there was medication available that will delay the inevitable. His advice to me was to see their psychologist for further testing and evaluation.
At first I wasn’t going to do that but the more I thought about it I decided to do what I usually try to do, meet the problem head on.
I went to the first appointment only to find that the doctor had car trouble and couldn’t make it. They re-scheduled the appointment. If that was me I would have to pay a fifty dollar charge. I went to my next appointment and met with the psychologist and told her she owed me fifty dollars because she canceled the last appointment. I got a laugh out of her.
The first thing I told her was that if there was anything wrong with me it’s ADD or Attention Deficit Disorder. I also told my doctor that and gave him a glaring example of it but he chose to ignore it.
She gave me verbal questions based mostly on math or math and alphabetical questions and putting them in order. She didn’t find any signs of Dementia or Alzheimer’s. Her diagnosis was . . . ADD.
Did we not just go around in a big circle?
Now that I’ve had my eyes examined, my head examined, that currently leaves me wondering what’s next. A prostate exam?
I think I’ll be leaving now.
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And Furthermore:
There are two kinds of people I fear. Those voters who are under informed and those who know better and don’t vote.
Given the mission that Obama and his merry band of Democrats are on, they will decree that a pea-shooter is an assault weapon. By their definition I have three assault weapons in the house. Am I the enemy?
Yesterday, while I was in the garage, I had to thaw my can of beer with a propane torch. That’s how cold it was!
What’s in my wallet? Charities want to know. Once you donate to one and they sell your name on a list to others, you are inundated with more requests for what’s in your wallet.
Until the next time . . .