Well…just got back from my first visit to the doctor in 16 years and it doesn’t look too bad so far…my blood pressure was a little high but the doctor thinks it was the antihistamine I’ve been taking for my allergies..oh, and I do like my new doctor…seems to be a good guy and took lots of time just talking about exercise, vaccines, and other health stuff…so it was a pleasant surprise. It was cool that I planned for blood work and they have a lab in the same building so I got that taken care of along with getting a flu shot and a pneumonia vaccine, too…and there is no bruising where they drew the blood so that is a bonus…the doctor wants me to get a colonoscopy in the next month or so and that will be covered, too, and I am curious if there are any problems…so far, the doctor seems to be happy about my health other than the borderline blood pressure and it is cool that all of the work I’ve been doing on the bike and working out has been having some effect….now, I can’t wait to see where my cholesterol is with bingeing on burgers this weekend…oh, well…don’t have prescription coverage so I probably won’t do anything about it even if it is high…having a doctor again makes me feel like I’m a little more connected to normalcy again and that is not a bad thing…
Monthly Archives: September 2018
September 4th
Well…running a little late this morning with having to change out another tube on the bike…discovered the front was flat when I got up so I had to use my last spare tube from the old bike…hope it works since this is going to be a busy day…going in for a checkup this morning and then I have to have the maintenance guys come with the wet carpet by my furnace…and it is two of my boys birthdays today so I have to text them…not that busy but I do have to wedge a workout and a bike ride in somewhere today, too….I did get to looking for a house almost all day yesterday and there are a few things out there but not where I want to live….so that will get worked on again today with an eye to finding something in the next week or so….slept kind of crappy last night but feel okay today with being good last night so maybe that should continue today…I am a little apprehensive about what they’ll find during my physical today but it is what it is…maybe I’ll be the healthiest old guy they’ve ever seen…more later…
A few bitches…
Well…no pool today with the bar being closed for Labor Day so I thought I’d just come here for a few bitches…so here goes….you know, I waited over 15 years to be able to get health insurance again…that I could afford…and I thought I’d paid my entire working life for Medicare and didn’t expect the expenses that still come even after paying in for forty years…I mean the basic cost is 134 bucks a month but that is without a supplement policy that would cost me another 100 dollars a month that I can’t afford, or if I had to take part D for prescriptions that would be another 100 a month…so how do people who need this stuff afford the 334 dollars a month on a fixed income? And that doesn’t even cover the co pays which will be 184 dollars for my checkup tomorrow….and that is not even addressing the 20% of any hospital bill that I will have to pay for if I ever end up there…which could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for my end of it….folks, this is why we need to vote for the dems this fall…at least they have promised to increase the coverage so we should be protected from going broke in retirement…can you say that about the repubs? Nope….
September 3rd
Well…running on time this morning and that is a little unusual…just haven’t been able to get moving the past few days but I do need to change that….slept okay last night but I am having trouble getting started and think that may be connected to yesterday’s problems on the bike….and not eating enough, again….didn’t get anything done yesterday with all of the races and soccer on…Man U finally won one but they are still in 11th place in the league and that is not good enough to get into the champions league later in the year…my feet still hurt from the long walk yesterday and I hope they heal up soon so they won’t be a problem in NYC…not much to do today…not sure about pool with it being a holiday today and it’s raining right now so I may have to take the day off the bike…the rain is strung out all the way to Iowa and heading here so it may be an easy one today…more later…
Limp home mode…
Well….after the debacle of the flat tire and the 4 mile walk home, I decided to abuse my body some more and go out and do another 15 miles this afternoon…that was a mistake…well…not really a mistake but I didn’t take into account that it is much hotter this time of the day and I went out as hard as I could…and that caused my body to go into limp home mode for the first time this summer…about 3 miles from home, I started to have a problem with my lungs and couldn’t get enough air so I had to stop at the top of the last climb to catch my breath and that never happens….so, I went just hard enough to get home and then into a cold shower to try to dump the heat that had built up…..still feel pretty lousy right now so I think I’ll take the rest of the day off and watch some races…..
More tantrums…
Well…with the McCain funeral yesterday and the huge reminders of how things used to be…that we had presidents who aren’t assholes, we had presidents that could string more than three words together, and we had presidents that people actually liked…what do we get from the idiot trump? Trying and failing to get the attention back on him with nonsensical tweets about NAFTA and playing golf for the 150th time since he was installed by Putin. This idiot can’t even have any respect for the norms of our society by understanding that it was McCain’s day and he needed to keep his big mouth shut…but, in trump world it’s all about him and nothing else matters….I loved the fact that every damn person that talked at the funeral went after the bloated idiot in chief, not that it will matter to the chief of narcissism, any time that any one is talking about him is a win for trump…and throwing his little tantrums are all that he has left while the noose is closing….I am more and more sure that Mueller has fail safes in place that will ensure that trump goes to jail, if not from federal crimes he has committed then from state charges that are being readied in many states. No pardons there…impeach…
September 2nd
Well…running really, really late today and it’s because I had my first flat on the new bike and had to walk it back 4 miles…and that was not fun with wet shoes and socks…have a huge blister on my left little toe that is going to hurt all week…but, I’m glad I had the chance to walk in these new shoes before I go to NYC so I won’t have to take them if they will blister my feet…I guess I’ll go with the new Sketchers instead…have been up since early with the storms waking me up at 5:30 but I think I slept okay before that….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done and today looks the same with the F1 race and then Man U and then two more races on this afternoon….I did change out the tube on the front of the bike and put the tire liner in to prevent any more flats…I found what looked like a piece of black glass stuck in the tread…I had been thinking about when the first flat was going to come…got to almost 2400 miles before that first one but now I have to think about the rear going flat…I may just put the liner in this week…more later….
September 1st
Well…I have a tip for you…do not ever go out on the bike before you have coffee…did that this morning and the entire ride was torture…and I still feel lousy right now and that may mean I didn’t eat enough yesterday…yep, that’s it…slept okay last night but man, I do feel crappy so I may need to make some toast here in a minute…and I need to get this done before F1 qualifying starts in one minute…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and I probably won’t get much done today with all of the sports on…soccer and racing is going to fill the day and I really should clean some and I might…but, I’m not going to think about that right now…I need the coffee to start to work right now and it isn’t…probably should just slam this first cup….more later….