{"id":4583,"date":"2026-07-03T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:48:11","slug":"wellness-check-at-the-doctors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wellness-check-at-the-doctors-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Check at the Doctor&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old Minnesota Farmer goes to the Mayo clinic in Rochester for a check-up. The doctor is amazed at what good shape the guy is in and asks,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;How do you stay in such great physical condition?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;I&#8217;m from Minnesota and in my spare time I like to hunt and fish&#8221; says <\/em><em>the old guy, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m in such good shape. I&#8217;m up well before daylight Feeding Cattle mending fences, Planting, Baling Hay, and when I&#8217;m not doing that, I&#8217;m out hunting or fishing. In the evening, I have a beer and all is well.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Well<\/em>&#8216;, says the doctor,<em> &#8216;I&#8217;m sure that helps, but there&#8217;s got to be more to it. How old was your father when he died?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Who said my Father&#8217;s dead?<\/em>&#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The doctor is amazed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;You mean you&#8217;re 80 years old and your father&#8217;s still alive? How old is he?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;He&#8217;s 100 years old,&#8217;<\/em> says the old Minnesotan.<em> &#8216;In fact he worked with and hunted with me this morning, and then we went to the topless bar for a while and had a little beer and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s still alive. He&#8217;s a Minnesota Farmer and he&#8217;s a hunter and fisherman too.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Well,&#8217; <\/em>the doctor says,<em> &#8216;that&#8217;s great, but I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more to it than that. How about your father&#8217;s father? How old was he when he died?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Who said my Grandpa&#8217;s dead?&#8217;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stunned, the doctor asks,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You mean you&#8217;re 80 years old and your grandfather&#8217;s still alive?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;He&#8217;s 118 years old,&#8217;<\/em> says the man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The doctor is getting frustrated at this point,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;So, I guess he went hunting with you this morning too?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;No, Grandpa couldn&#8217;t go this morning because he&#8217;s getting married today.&#8217;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point the doctor is close to losing it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8216;Getting married!!&#8230;???? Why would a 118 year-old guy want to get married?&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Who said he wanted to?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old Minnesota Farmer goes to the Mayo clinic in Rochester for a check-up. The doctor is amazed at what good shape the guy is in and asks, &#8216;How do you stay in such great physical condition?&#8217; &#8216;I&#8217;m from Minnesota and in my spare time I like to hunt and fish&#8221; says the old guy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wellness-check-at-the-doctors-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wellness Check at the Doctor&#8217;s Office&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age","category-doctors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}