I went to the doctor on Sunday about my cough, because two to three weeks of a sore throat was beginning to worry me and based on my conversation with the doctor, came away with "You have asthma." (Compounded with allergies and the remnants of a cold.)
See now, I've suspected, literally, since I was around age eight or so and knew what asthma was that I had it, but kind of kept getting told I was exaggerating or whatnot. But what I'd kind of forgotten was I'd tried, once, when I was older to ask about it. Must have been fifteen or sixteen by then, but the doctor told me "You just haven't acclimated to the high altitude, that's why you get short of breath."
I mean, yes, I am not a Colorado native. I was born in Massachusetts. But I moved here when I was two-and-a-half years old. It rang as a little suspiciously like being brushed off to me, so I asked about that, but was told some people just never get used to it. Maybe that's true? I don't know. It still sounds a little fishy, like there's probably some common factor in these people who "just never get used to it" that no one's bothered to figure out, given the average person should acclimate in a relatively short amount of time.
But this seems to happen frequently when I ask about health issues I may or may not have, where I get kind of dismissed as worrying too much about it. And then much much later it turns out I wasn't just being paranoid. I'm not really a hypochondriac, I swear. I tend to wait forever before even mentioning I
think I have a problem (especially given I'm often shot down about it), and so it's really kind of awesome to get some of these things I've suspected literally forever (15 years or more!) confirmed.
I'm still getting over the cough, so I haven't gotten a chance to try it, but I also got an inhaler that I can use before I try to exercise that might genuinely let me exercise without keeling over dead from lack of oxygen. Ridiculously excited for the last remnants of the cold to go away so I can test this.
paintedkirin posted an entry on Gaius Baltar and being an Ennegram 5(w4), which I may do a similar thing on, to go with the very rambly
INTP/5 brief combination overview I already wrote, but that'll come later.
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