Spending £300 to look like David Beckham…
It’s been an interesting few weeks, health-wise…
A couple of months ago, I had a bit of a niggle and uncomfortable pulling sensation in my stomach. I wasn’t in any pain but it was quite uncomfortable and wasn’t really going away so I thought I better play it safe and head to the doctor’s. He suspected a hernia which I was quite surprised about given I wasn’t in any pain but I was sent away for some scans and sure enough, I have a hernia. Turns out, it’s quite a significant one and I’m on the “urgent” list (whatever that means) and I’m now waiting a date to go under the knife and have it fixed.
In between scans and waiting for results, I was back at the doctor’s for something that has been getting persistently more annoying over the last few years. It was around about Christmas time a couple of years back when I woke up in the middle of the night with an incredibly high pitched ringing in my left ear. Cue walking round the house looking for where this noise was coming from, only to realise, it was in my head! It’s been on and off for the last few years but recently has been worse and a lot more annoying so I took a trip back to the doctor.
“I saw you last week didn’t I?”
A few questions and a look inside my head didn’t offer any answers but he did mention the word tinnitus which I wasn’t overly overjoyed by. I’ve been referred on and I’ll be spending the last day of 2025 at an ear specialist to try and work out what’s going.
So a little Harry Hernia and potentially Tom Tinnitus on the list.
But that isn’t all…
The last few times I’ve been at college, I have found myself working a little harder to focus on the big TV monitor at the end of the classroom. I could read it clearly but something didn’t feel quite right. I was long overdue an eye check anyway so I thought I’d go and get myself checked out. I spent the week leading up to the appointment trying to read registration plates and road signs in the distance and all was absolutely fine.
I walked in thinking it would be nothing more than a quick eye test and I’d be out the door within 20 minutes. An hour later, I had some glasses on order and a nice dent in my wallet...
“You have astigmatism sir”
“Come again?”
“You have rugby ball shaped eye balls...”
“Ah, okay”
After some discussion and clarification it was decided that I didn’t absolutely need glasses, that it would only be for prolonged periods in front of a screen and we could review it again next year but…
Getting them now would help to protect the eyes, long term.
As an advocate of investing in protecting your health, I was in.
My brief to the lady who was helping me choose some glasses was very simple:
“I have an unusually round head, please do not give me glasses that exaggerates the roundness…”
After trying on half of what they had on offer, I finally decided on a pair and they just so happened to be from David Beckham’s eye wear range.
“Do these make me look like David Beckham?”
Awkward pause….
“Of course, sir”
Yeah right!
(What I think I look like…)
Thinking about it, this blog that you are reading now is the first task wearing my glasses.
So, it’s been quite a few weeks, I have rugby-shaped eye balls, a faulty fire alarm constantly going off in my left ear and Harry Hernia sticking out my stomach!
But the point is, investing in your health, is the best investment you can make. You will have heard me say it many-a-time and I will keep shouting it from the rooftops:
“If your health is in a positive place, it will have a positive impact on every other area of your life. If your health is in a negative place, it will have a negative impact on every other area of your life”
If you have the ability to invest in your health, do it. Your future self will be forever grateful.
(What I actually look like…)