Somehow, Aaron talked me into a doc­tors appoint­ment for a gen­eral phys­i­cal exam­i­na­tion, some­thing I’ve been avoid­ing for years now. Turns out noth­ing is wrong, as far as the doc­tor can tell, and I opted to skip the blood test. I brought up some issues I thought I might have, but he waved them off as being fairly nor­mal. I wasn’t too ner­vous because every­thing in my life seems to be going fine, so some bad news wouldn’t have hurt (as opposed to before, where it would have been another prob­lem added to my list). I was look­ing for­ward to some bad news actu­ally, as if con­ve­niently hav­ing it now would mean that I’d be free for another few years.