This is What I’m [Still] Learning from my Ageing Body. Medical Costs Balloon Slowly.

Stop worrying about that 5-digit big bomb in the future. Worry about that $100 bill today.

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Just now

Another physio treatment session. Another $130 bucks exited my wallet.

But here’s the thing.

I am not foreign to physiotherapies. I like long-distance running, and I have suffered from injuries that required rehab. Visiting Tina [my lovely physio] is like patronizing the doctor in the neighbourhood clinic.

Back then, in my 30s, physio treatments were targeted. Nothing more. I knew it was for running. That is shortscript for… I eat my sh!t.

That has changed recently.

And it scared me a little.

It started with a business trip

It took me 14.5 hours to travel from Singapore to Paris.

In truth, this is not a thing to me. I have multiple 14.5 hours of that exact flight route in me. Here’s the difference.

I arrived at Charles de Gaulle with a severe backache.

I slept for 10 hours on the flight in a foetal position. Well, the temperature up in the air is cold, and that was the way to…