Health Issues

Like a bad sitcom, the heart palpitations keep coming back. Skipped heartbeats are occurring very frequently, although there have been no prolonged episodes. The cause is probably stress. Ever since the move to “affordable” senior citizen housing (“old folks home”), pretty much everything has gone downhill:

• Outside ambient noise is causing sleeplessness. Noise is continuous, day and night.
• Continuous exposure to myriad decrepit senior citizens in the ”old folks home,” on the bus, at the gym, in the fast food joints, and at shopping malls is causing extreme duress over mortality issues.
• Increasing expenditures and “shrinkflation” is generating extreme anxiety over money matters.

Quality-of-life in the islands (and empire as a whole) has degenerated to such a low level that the “civilization” paradigm is a total failure. Little wonder why people are totally preoccupied with their “smartphones.” The latter is a facilitator of denial. And, denial is really the only way that a rank-and-file peon can survive without going berserk.

Addendum: Dental issues abound as well. The one troublesome molar, which had a root canal, is still acting up. There is an on-going infection because of erosion. The tooth needs to be extracted, but the cost is prohibitive. The extraction of the tooth will cause other problems, too.