Are all these part of aging?
During a half an hour gap while waiting for patients to arrive, the practice nurse decided to perform a spirometry test (a test performed to assess a person’s lung function) on me after I cleverly initiated a question asking her if she could teach me on how to operate the machine. I should have lied to her that I am 28 years old but I did not. However I did warn her that I am almost incapable of performing such “strenuous” test. As she convinced me that it was only for demonstrative purposes, I consented to becoming her patient for the next half an hour.
After giving long, detailed and precise instructions, I proceeded to blowing into that little mouthpiece connected to the machine. The practice nurse gave me an impression that she was partly puzzled, as though her instructions weren’t clear enough. She asked me to try again, and again, and again. I was sure I blew out the air twice my lung volume but she was still convinced it was probably due to technical problems. People here are kind you see, they never believed you have flaws until they have tried a million times to finally convince themselves.
Either I turned cyanosed or pallor that she finally said the test was over.
But I think she just gave up, because the print-out of my spirometry result said, “Lung function of 32 years of age.”
whahaha….32 years of age?? how come?
Because I was so bad at blowing I couldn’t reach the target value no matter how many times I tried. *sob sob*