Are DIY health testing kits really a good idea?
If The Nurse was freed from prison, she could walk into any chemist and pick up a plethora of health testing kits.
For a few quid she could examine her cholesterol level, blood pressure and blood sugar, test for allergies and find out whether she’d caught any number of lurid STDs.
For a few quid more she could have her DNA tested to see if she had a genetic propensity for nasties like cancer and heart disease.
At the same time she’d probably be following the trend for poking oneself in various intimate places on a regular basis to check all’s well. If she was a bloke she’d be fondling her own testicles every five minutes just in case they’d mysteriously swollen to gargantuan proportions while her attention was elsewhere.
OK, it’s good to be aware of your body on a common sense level. But is it a good idea to obsess about it? Do we really need to poke and prod, test and re-test our bodies, treating them like unexploded bombs?
The Nurse thinks it’s all a bit intense and panicky. Surely it can’t be good for you to expect your poor body to explode the second you take your eye off the ball?
Instead of pestering it with endless enquiries and questions, she’s leaving her body in peace to get on with being healthy.
