Fear

People are afraid. There is so much fear that comes into the office. Mrs. H came in yesterday. She had urinary incontinence. She went to see a physician who was going to do a bladder suspension procedure. He had to send her for routine cardiac clearance. The cardiologist who saw her found an abnormal stress test, so he had to do an angiogram. After that, they wanted to do emergency open heart surgery for a 6-way bypass. She didn't even know that she had any heart disease.
That is scary.
She had surgery, and she is doing very well now.
We might suddenly die. That's the tricky thing. It makes people afraid. So we have to be able to accept this and still be happy from day to day. I don't really think this is a terrible thing. It's a constant reminder that we have to do whatever we have to do to be good right now. There's just no time to waste. I think the real problem is that too many of us are spending too much time wasted, thinking that we can't die right now. But that's a scary plan.