I had to make a trip to the doctor late this past fall.
And I did not go willingly.
The doctor’s office is a place that I particularly want to spend as little time as possible going to see. The a/c is always too much in order to mitigate bacteria and viral spread. But it’s not just the a/c that bothers me. I just am so afraid of thinking I have some small health problem and finding out that I’ve got months to live. Of course, as a grown man, I know that my line of thinking is completely ridiculous. Nonetheless, I avoid going to the doctor like none other. This is another reason I was cheerful to be stuck inside the central a/c of our house during the worst of the pandemic. I did not want covid and I didn’t want to be in a hospital for sure. Then this Fall, I got a respiratory illness that I just couldn’t shake. At first, it felt like a common head and chest cold. I tested for covid and was negative. I got to feeling better in a couple of nights. But weeks after I was back inside the commercial heating and air conditioning of work, I was still coughing and not breathing entirely well. That’s when my better half said enough was enough and she dragged me to the doctor. And that’s where I learned the importance of having good indoor air quality. The doctor thought this was the problem. So he advised me to get HVAC duct cleaning and HVAC duct resealing done by the heating and air conditioning business. And once that was done, I needed to change to a HEPA filter. I did just that and I’ve vastly improved the indoor air quality and my respiratory health.