Let's Get Physicals

I actually like going for my annual physical because my Primary Care doctor is so awesome – plus I’ve been going to her so long it feels like we’re pals. Yesterday, for example,  she so patiently went over all my boring issues writing it all down. Of course being such a GIRL, I went right into apology mode the second she stepped close for the looking down your throat and up your nostrils part “Look at these lines coming around my mouth!” I yipped in self-castigation. “Hey come on, you look great” she said (She’s my same age so we’re talkin’ relative here.) “I have those lines too, see? A few more years and our lipstick will start bleeding down into them!”“So you don’t think we should go get face-lifts?” I said half in jest.“Facelifts, God no! The women I know who with face-lifts look weird. Listen, it’s better to just age. We look a little crappy for a few years but then it all changes and we turn into these beautiful old women in our 70s and 80s.”See why I like her? Beautiful old women in our 70s and 80s! She meant all women in their 70 and 80s are beautiful, and not in spite of being old but because they are old. Like these two bold babes, cigars and flowery caps and all.