Creenan: Bloodwork a sign my medical exams will get more complicated
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Robert Creenan (Tribune File Photo)
In my apparent quest to try new things in this new area, it also included another sign that I was getting older and my medical exams would be getting more complicated. I made a visit to the McLaren laboratory to get some blood drawn for testing.
Aside from writing stories about McLaren Hospital and what events or activities they put on, I have never gone to them or any other local provider for any health needs. I have my yearly physicals and dentist appointments back with the family doctors back in Buffalo I have used for years. The only time I can recall anything like that was when I tried McLaren’s telehealth one time when I thought I had COVID, but it ended up being nothing.
Creenan: These Tigers had no roar
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Robert Creenan (Tribune File Photo)
This weekend, I finally took a step of living in Michigan I wanted to do for a long time. And that was being disappointed by the Detroit Tigers.
As I had said in a previous column about baseball, the last time I went to a MLB game was at Yankee Stadium 10 years ago, and even though the Yankees were playing the Oakland Athletics that night, it was basically another tourist stop on my family vacation to New York, seeing all the Yankee history there and leaving when we could not take the July heat anymore.
Creenan: A hard night after getting the vaccine
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Robert Creenan (Tribune File Photo)
As of when I am writing this column, about one-third of Huron County’s population has gotten vaccinated against COVID-19, with about 20% of the U.S. population.
This week, I finally got to see what all the fuss was about I got my Johnson & Johnson vaccine dose, the one-shot vaccine that our region got lots of doses for because our testing positivity rates are so high. One and done and I do not need to worry about getting another one for now.
It was one of the regular Thursday clinics the county health department put on in the Huron Crest Plaza, in a space that reminded me of a shoe store without the merchandise inside. Registering was simple enough, just providing my health insurance card and ID at one table before moving onto the next table where the nurse giving vaccinations was. Aside from the needle looking longer than the most recent tetanus shot I got, getting it was