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[quote=Anonymous]Quick story about me that might help you.  I'm a guy and was 41 when my son was born.  I had been working very long hours for a long time but I felt ok.  A little overweight, a bit tired but I had actually been losing a lot of weight very quickly in the weeks before the birth.  When the boy was born we changed to a new family plan insurance and that meant a new doctor for me.  I hadn't seen my old doctor in a while but a week after the boy arrived I decided to meet the new doctor since she was in the same facility as the pediatrician and we were going in for the 1 week checkup anyway.  So I went in for a routine physical.

My numbers weren't just bad.  they were very, very dangerously bad.  Not only did I have VERY severe diabetes but I had ketoacidosis (a condition related to diabetes that can cause coma or death).  They wouldn't let me leave for several hours while they pumped saline into me intravenously to flush the sugars out.  And my cholesterol numbers were comically bad.

I made some very drastic changes and I'm pretty healthy now.  Numbers are all under control.  However, if I hadn't gone in for that routine physical I probably wouldn't be typing this right now.  I probably would have been dead at 41 or 42 and my wife would be raising our son by herself (or, if you're going to be optimistic about it, with someone else).

In any case, that short visit probably saved my life and gave me 30 or 40 or 50 years that I wouldn't have otherwise had.  Tell your husband to get that check-up.  It won't kill him.[/quote]

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