Knew this was coming.

I just need to dump a little right now. Just after I quit, I went to the
docs for the first time in several years. She gave me a full physical
and told me that my BP was high. She also said my lungs sounded a little
raspy. So she gave me a P/A to get blood work and a chest x-ray. I went
for the blood work a couple weeks ago and I went for the chest x-ray
today. I'll find out the verdict on September 2 when I go back to docs.
I'm pretty sure my cholesterol will be up there and she already put me
on a very low dose of BP medicine. She thinks if I continue to exercise
that I won't need the BP meds after a while. Naturally, I'm worried
about the x-ray results. I smoked from age 13 to age 46 with a couple
years off for my first quit. That's 30 years plus. You don't smoke for
30 years and not have any damage. Just doesn't happen. I like to think
that since I can do the rowing machine for 30 - 45 minutes straight,
that it can't be all that bad. Can it? I know. I need to just wait until
9/2 and leave the diagnosis to the doc but I can't help being fearful.

ConcordPhil
Charter member of the Lucky 7s and grateful to have not smoked 763
cigarettes in the past 1M 1W 4h 21m. Being smoke-free these past 38 days
has saved me $190.89 and 2D 15h 35m of my life.