Long-term Health Planning

Okay, so there's another one. What kind of support or guidance would be helpful from healthcare professionals during the fall? And I'm thinking about practical help, emotional or seasonal planning. Well, I was telling my roommate the other day that you know you got to be responsible for yourself so what would be good which it's hard to imagine but if you if you can get health care providers to also keep track of each person as far as making sure they have the proper appointments or make sure they get the proper checkups or proper testing you know I've been having trouble breathing ever since I was a kid I was, you know, in sports, I couldn't play certain sports because I didn't have the, I couldn't last as long breathing like playing soccer. I couldn't play soccer. I could play baseball real well, but I couldn't play soccer and I couldn't run. I couldn't run cross country because I didn't have the breath. And this continued from when I was, you know, five, six, seven years old to, um, like three, four years ago, I got, uh, I thought I had COVID. So I went to the doctor and the doctor, they went to the hospital. They said, well, good news is you don't have COVID, but you got blood clots in your lungs. So they got, they gave me the cat scans and the pet scans and they got rid of the little ones, but there's still a big tumor in one of my lungs. It's big sizes, my fist. And my, my, My doctor says, you know, it's not cancerous, so I can't get it taken out now, but they want to just monitor it. So I go see her every year. But, you know, that was 50 over 50 years that I had this tumor in my lung and I never even knew it. So when when I was younger, some some doctor or somebody should have been more conscious that that have a test. Why can't I breathe? What's going on? then they did. So I'm not trying to blame anybody else, but I'm saying it would have been nice if a health care professional would have noticed or would have acknowledged that I had trouble breathing and trying to figure out why. But, you know, it didn't happen. So health care wasn't the same back when I was a kid. So it's hard to it's hard to say about today's doctors. I know they're so busy. You got a half hour appointment. They got to spend 20 minutes with it because the 10 minutes they got to go back to their offices and write everything down and you know write down what they said right there what you said you know it's it's a whole different world out there so you it'd be nice if the doctors had like you know like i said for each patient had a they call them up and say how you feeling uh do you need to come in and see me i'm not just saying you know to be a pest or you know if that you know if they have time to do something like that or they should at least have their their underlings you know whatever you call them, I forget what they call them, but there are people like that. They're like, at Carroll Hospital, where I've been for my last three operations, they have somebody that does that now. They call up after a surgery and say, how you feeling? You know, can we do anything for you? Do you need to come back? You know, they have people that that's their job to care, not, you know, and they care. I think their slogan is care bravely. And I appreciate it when they call, it makes me feel good to know that somebody else is thinking about me. They're not just got their money from the operation and move on to the next one, they have a system. So I'm glad that the healthcare people, not everywhere, but just like where I live in Carroll County, they do that, so it's a positive thing.