WHAT'S UP DOC?

So I went to see my Doctor today at 3:45 p.m. I was promptly escorted to an examining room at the far back of the office. I sat there patiently until 5:15 p.m. when my Doctor walked through the door and apologized for being so long---I told him that it was OK---he said "NO IT ISN'T---NO ONE TOLD ME YOU WERE IN THIS ROOM."

We talked about why I was there--to get a refill for my AdVair prescription which I told him I didn't think was working all that well and to see if there was a good expectorant that I could try. He listened to my lungs and was very surprised---he told me he couldn't believe the difference since the last visit (when I was just getting over pneumonia). He said he would renew the AdVair for just in case and gave me a new prescription for pills that are supposed to quiet a cough---I would rather have a pill that caused your cough to be productive instead of dry.

Then I told him I was having some pain in my shoulders and wondered if I had torn the rotator cuffs---he had me raise my arms and then lower them a couple of times then he jammed his thumbs into the socket---it hurt like holy H _ _ L. I really flinched and he told me we could do a lot of x-rays and stuff but what we would find is that I had arthritis building up along the joint. He told me for sure there is no rotator cuff damage or I wouldn't be able to lift my arms as freely as I do.

He also told me I was a pretty healthy 60 (nearly) year old man and had to pay the price for all the stuff I did as a kid. He asked me if I wanted to get some prescription ibuprophen---I told him no---I took four of the 200 mg. generic Ibuprophen with one half of an extra strength tylenol when I had really bad pain and 2 if it just hurt a little. He told me that would work better than what he was going to prescribe.

Then he asked me where I came up with the 1/2 extra strength tylenol in the above mix---I told him from the doctor I had 20 years ago for a back injury I had while I was on a fire---it worked then and it still works---he said he was sure it would work because all the tylenol would do was rush the other stuff into the blood stream---and 800 mg. of Ibuprophen would rapidly take away any inflamation and hence the pain---so all y'all (I've been told by the fire team from the south that that's plural for y'all)---there is a free back pain/inflamed joint or muscle prescription from the Doctor I liked the very best of all the Doctors in my life---it really does work.