Lyrical Physical

Wednesday (today) I had my first physical in a while (4 years?), and first with Dr. G, my primary care physician. Technically it is a pre-operative physical, so it added these elements:

1) An EKG, which looks awesome, and ensures that I can take general anesthesia on Friday Should license it as a stock photo for what heartbeats on graph paper should look like. 

2) A light-and-cone** peak up my ample nostrils to view my smooth and continuous septum. Verdict: perfect for intranasal tubes. So I got that going for me.*

You could have just taken out that Mary Poppins tape measure and said "practically perfect, in every way"

* Hard to say which is more perfectly suited for being medicalized: the pencil sized vein in my left arm that even a rookie phlebotomist could score, or my open nostrils which just scream "intubate me"

**For gift registry purposes, note that I take a 4.2mm disposable cone to look into my ears and nose. And let's scoff at the Metric System enthusiasts who think that labeling the cones as either 2.7mm or 4.2mm is somehow easier than saying 1/8th or 3/16 inches.