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Cheese puffs
Funny story about cheese puffs and my oldest patient ever. She lived to be 106 but when she was ONLY 102 she had a heart attack and they sent her home from the hospital on 6 medicines. She had never been on any. When I got to her house to do a housecall to see her for the first time 4 generations came outside to welcome me and tell me all about her. They asked me to talk to her about eating so many Cheetos! I said why! And they said bc the doc at the hospital that started all the medicines told her they weren’t good for her. I shook my head and said “she is 102 yrs old she can eat anything she wants”. Anyway I relayed that message to her but still every time I did a housecall there she would hide the bag of Cheetos behind her pillow. So I would play along and ask if she was still eating Cheetos and she would say “no doctor they said those are not good for me” and then I would see her hands with orange stained fingers from all the Cheetos she was eating!!! Love me some house calls no Better way to “meet them where they are” the insights are innumerable to say the least. Love the stories my patients tell me!! In a way I have lived life and visited the world through the eyes of my patients.

