by Charles Davidson

What a great year. Thanks to your airplane, efficient business travel has made your business grow 100 percent in the last two years. And now comes the reward: You’ve just inked the paper to trade your old starter airplane on a new Cirrus with a glass panel. Life is good. But a routine appointment with your Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) knocks the edge off your euphoria. The doc says you’re blood pressure is not just high but really high and he sends you off to the family doctor for evaluation. The news get worse. You now learn that you have elevated blood glucose and cholesterol levels and…