Aging Is Real… and My Dad Just Showed Me How Loud It Can Be

Recently, I made a post about my sister's wedding and how he was admitted in the hospital after stressing himself too much at the wedding. I know you might be thinking the stress , is one very serious heavy lifting he did. But "Nope". it was just climbing the staircase to the first floor of the hotel he was lodged in, dancing with the bride and a little walk within the hotel premises.

Yet, this was the same man, back when he was much younger, would chase me like a lion just to flog me whenever I mess up, he will work tirelessly just to put food on our table and also looked untouchable, as if time couldn't touch him. But guess what now?? Today age is speaking through his body. A strong reminder that he is not the superhero I once thought he was. He is human and as times goes on, his strengths fades.

If it isn't joint pains around his waist and knees, which is making walking difficult for him, he is having high blood pressure. Even something as simple as getting up from his chairs, requires concentration. Sometimes, I wish we lived closed by, so that from time to time, I could be taking him for some stroll around the neighbourhood and do some little exercise like climbing staircase and maybe squatting to help him keep fit.

I thought of @weisser-rabe post, when she talked about how fast she was recovering. This is a lady that still rides horses, assisting in the construction of her new home, going on tours, still very active in steemit and her offline jobs. yet looking so healthy for her age. it reminds me how this little movement is medicine and age doesn’t have to slow us down completely and this is exactly what my dad needs, at least to keep him shape, a little.

But I honestly don't know why his new wife won't do all that with him but will prefer to sit down with him all day discussing. But, I still give her flowers because she has really been instrumental in making him look fresh again since we welcome her into the family. My dad will be 74 years by next year.

For years, we have been procrastinating about doing a full body check up on him but we were prompted to go immediately when he told us that his legs is swelling up but he wasn't feeling any pains. we were expecting it to go on its own since he didn't hit his leg anywhere but it kept increasing rapidly. we took him to a general hospital but we were advised to visit a heart specialist. They call them cardiologist. This was my first encounter with one.

They ran about nine different test on him, this time not only his heart but for other part of his body. For the heart related test, he was mandated to sleep there for 24hrs before they can ascertain the result. That is the reason for all this plenty instrument in his body.

This is were things got a little messy.

After staying 24hrs, one of the junior doctor who was told to monitor my dad, had know idea that blood pressure machine was off the whole time. All we kept hearing was a beep from the machine, so, we assumed it was working. when he was about to be discharged , the specialist came to take readings, only to find out it has been switched off all this while. They apologised for their negligence and booked another day for the test because my dad was insisting he didn't want to sleep there and He just wanted to go home.

They had to book us for another day, to retake the test and was asked to come every two weeks to come take a particular drugs because base on other test that was conducted on him, he is severely hypertensive and it has affected his kidney and cause a little heart enlargement. The joint pains is athrithis and The waist pain? something about one lumbar bla bla bla...... I cant really remember it. they also told him to try and do a little exercise.

We will be leaving this week for the heart test to be conducted again, until then........ Stay safe and take care of your health because You Only Live Once (Y.O.L.O)