3x Thursday

Medicine

1. Are there medicines you have to take everyday? If so, is it a drag?
Yup: thyroid and allergy. Without the former, I'd probably be dead; without the latter, I'd kill myself.
I also take a multi-vitamin most mornings.

2. Are you more of a Western medicine fan, or Eastern? Why/why not?
I don't know enough about Eastern medicine to make a fair judgment. I'm not a huge fan of Western medicine, but having seen it evolve from the time of my dad's first heart surgery to his last, and from my father-in-law's back problems to my husband's, I'm glad that it's responsive to change. Wish they'd get a better handle on the chronic disesases....

3. Are you one of those people who avoids doctors at all costs and just self-medicates as need be, or do you check in with a 'professional' from time to time?
No. I'm a "nip-it-in-the-bud-before-it-becomes-a-ginormous-unsolvable-issue" kind of person. I do my annual and other regular checkups faithfully--because I have seen first-hand multiple times what can happen if you don't--and when there's a problem I see the doctor ASAP. No sense suffering if there's something simple that can be done to resolve the situation quickly.