With a subject line like that, this should be a deep Christmas Day message, but alas no such luck. No, nothing to do with Christmas; it's just that the other topic I wanted to do was even less holiday-appropriate. (You'll find out tomorrow, most likely.)
No, the observation of today is that Dad never takes his doctor's advice. It occurs to me that if he were actually paying them, he might pay them more heed to go with the money. This is not to say that old people shouldn't have free medical care. Just a suggestion that if they can afford to pay anyway, they might find they get more out of it if they pay for it. Hell, there's no way to generalize. In his case, and perhaps only in his case, he might get more out of his medical care if he were paying for it, and thus was motivated to pay attention. Or maybe he's just a grumpy old cuss who thinks he knows best and wouldn't pay any more attention regardless. Anyway, just a thought.
To be more Christmassy, I hope everyone has a very merry one and the happiest of new years.
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