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I am still on my car theme … a few weeks back when I was looking through my car’s log books I had one of those smack on the side of the head, lightbulb going off moments. I realised my car had had better maintenance than my body ever had.

Every few months because a little sticker on my windscreen told me to, my car went off to get checked, adjusted and sorted – no questions asked. But for some reason every year when I was due for an annual physical check-up I always managed to find other reasons not to do them.

Sure, I saw an acupuncturist (thanks Charmaine from Banskis Healing Centre) and chiropractor (Arana Chiropractic) every month to help manage the damage on my body of having my computer hot-wired into my veins, but orthodox medicine check-ups sort of had fallen by the wayside.

So with trepidation I booked a complete series of appointments, sort of like one of the “big” car services where your car is in for a full day and emerges with your wallet significantly lighter for the experience. Dentist – check, optometrist – check, doctor – check, mole scan – check, pathologist – check. I understand from speaking with each specialist that this is a common problem for business owners -they tend to look after everyone else before themselves.

And the result? Well mostly positive. All the core systems are working beautifully but the peripherals need a bit of work. From next week I will be wearing the new graduated lenses (bi-focals in the old school) – and I have a stock of ginger tablets on hand to deal with any sea-sick feeling.  Seeing the computer clearly will certainly help but I am not too excited about learning to see in a new way!

I’m also booked in for some day surgery to remove 4 rather nasty  looking moles. In Queensland skin cancers are an unfortunate by-product of our love of the sun, so these ones need to be dealt with promptly and skin checks done annually (I missed a year – doh!).

I am now on every bring-up system for each specialist, so can expect to see wonderful reminder letters popping into my letterbox and this time I will act on them. After all – surely a car’s maintenance is not as important as looking after my own health.

So … for your own health … does your car get more attention than you do?

Ingrid Cliff

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