Health and Fitness Journal

I don’t know what to think - is the sun good for me, or bad for me? I just cut my hair and I’m worried I’m gonna get spots on my head because now more of me is exposed to the sun. My girlfriend Drew says I’m not worried enough about the sun’s dangers. She says it’s okay if I cut my hair, but that I should leave it “long on the top, and just cut the sides.”

I told the barber to shave the sides only, but he thought I wanted a Mohican. Now I’m so afraid of those incoming spots. I mean, I don’t want to look like Gorby; no offense to Russia’s people. I understand different countries have different fashion customs, so maybe it is okay over there to have big splotchy sun spots on your head. Who knows?

I tried rubbing a smooth coating of Goalch Sun Cream on my pate. It stung, so I wiped it off. I also tried wearing a baseball cap, but it just caused further fashion friction: I didn’t know if I should wear the thing backwards, or forwards, or what. So, at the moment, I am still risking it all, for fun in the sun.

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When I was growing up in Canada I went to the doctor for a check-up every year. I never thought twice about it. At that time health care in Canada was provided free for all Canadian citizens by the Canadian government. But since I moved to the United States I’ve been looking into health savings accounts. I do a lot of lifting on my job and I’m getting older so I have to make sure I’m covered.

My friends in Canada have complained to me recently that things up there are changing in health care these days. I think in some parts of the country you have to pay a yearly fee for coverage now. My friend who lives in Calgary told me he just paid five hundred bucks to the provincial government to be covered for the year. It’s a whole new world since I was a kid.

The other consideration which comes up more frequently regarding Canadian versus now it seems is serious differences of quality. I haven’t yet reached a decision on this issue. Maybe it’s just a case of the grass always looking a little greener on the other side. Canadians I know are looking at getting surgery done in the US. American friends ask me about Canadian drugs.

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