Going to the doctor is one of my least favorite activities.
For starters, I’m a big, big chicken when it comes to doctors.
I’m always afraid I’m going to go into the office thinking I have something benign and come out with a life changing diagnosis. And then, there’s the air conditioning in the office. I asked a nurse once why they keep the HVAC cooling set so low. He told me that it was to prevent the spread of germs and bacteria. They don’t like the air conditioning so much. For me, that level of HVAC cooling is a bit much as well. But when I had been dealing with a respiratory ailment for more than 6 weeks without it totally going away, I had to do something. So going to the doctor and sitting in all that HVAC cooling was what I had to do. But after the examination, I was surprised to get the diagnosis and even more amazed at the remedy. Indeed, I had caught a cold that was going around but the reason it was hanging on was more likely due to the indoor air quality. That was a shock and I wasn’t really even sure what good indoor air quality was and how I was supposed to go about getting it. But the doctor gave me a prescription to call the HVAC company and get the ductwork cleaning and ductwork resealing done. Once the HVAC air ducts were clean, I was then to upgrade our HVAC air filter to a HEPA filter. This thing catches more than 99 percent of the airborne contaminants that have had my respiratory under near constant attack.