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Good Morning Dave, it is great to hear you being able to get out for a hike today. I hope you find a log somewhere in the middle and have a seat to drink it in anew. Pushed myself out the door for my walk yesterday afternoon despite feeling so stiff. Didn’t quite make a mile but the goal is just to keep getting out there.…

Good Morning I never regretted retiring except it was 2 years earlier than planned due to health. I never enjoyed my career and didn’t miss it one minute. I never understood questions about adjusting to retirement. Only problem I had was learning to slow down my pace of life. Still figuring out this don’t do anything…

Good Morning Congratulations Dave on your restored freedom. I hope you can start building up some hikes soon. Steve, well done on healthy eating. I hope the roofing and insurance all go smoothly today and work can commence. Heather and I got out for our coffee date in the afternoon after playing peek-a-boo with the light…

Good Morning Bob, my biggest concern with the radiation was my ability to survive the table time. My pain Dr developed a couple strategies. Thankfully the treatments are much shorter than the initial setup. Dave, how did the surgeon check in go? Any progress? My son made dinner in our large cast iron skillet. I cleaned it…

Good Morning Dave, I hope the surgeon follow up goes well and he/she is able to develop a game plan that allows you to be more active. Sam, it is good here you are off restrictions, Congrats, but prayers continue for healing on the left side. I seem to be on the mend flu wise after a rough night. Friday, Patrick does the…

Good Morning Well it turns out my lethargy and growly stomach is a good old case of flu rather that side effects of medications and conditions. I slept on and off a good chunk of yesterday. More rest and some OTC flu meds at half dose due to the pain med I am easing off. But an exciting day of trying to rest and be…

Good Morning That’s quite a list Sam! How long will it take to resolve all that? I felt like crap yesterday with some sort of bug. Treated with rest and added in the little bit of tylenol I am allowed. But I slept better and feel pretty good right now. Reduced my Percocet another notch today. Trying to resist the urge to…

Good Morning Steve, congratulations on setting the retirement date. When it is time, it is time, if you can make the $$ work. Just think of all the projects Connie can come up with for you to do! I might have picked up a bug somewhere. I began to feel pretty run down yesterday afternoon especially when I went for my walk.…

Good Morning Prayers for a straight forward oral surgery this morning Dave. Black Bean soup use to be a favorite of mine. I long ago lost my recipe and never found another I liked as much. Continue to improve from the surgery. Today I reduce the Percocet a bit more following the Drs half dose at a time idea. I think it…

Good Morning I am sure you will find the right piece of wood for your Mother’s urn. I got my walk in yesterday, just a mile. I will walk again today. I am taking it slow. I will try to walk in the morning and again in the afternoon if possible. We don’t do corned beef and cabbage. Cabbage is a hard no and the corned beef…

Good Morning I am sure the urn will be a beautiful expression of love for your Mom, Dave. It isn’t about being practical. This is your first big wood working project since surgery which somehow seems right that it is for your Mom. My 1 week post surgery appointment with the surgeon went well. The problem with these back…

Welcome Miguel. I am up in the Bay Area. Where abouts are you?

Good Morning Bob, I am glad to hear your DDIL is bouncing back so quickly. Dave, how wonderful that you are able to make the urn. It seems so right. Yesterday I reduced my Percocet usage from 4 pills to 3 without only a little additional discomfort. I have my one week follow up today and I feel like I am doing fairly well…

Good Morning Those were some impressive hail stones Connie posted pictures of on FB. Pain levels have reduced. I am able to sleep much better now and am thus feeling better. This morning I was going to back off some of the percocet by reducing one pill, but found that I wasn’t ready yet so I will wait till my follow up on…

Dave Deepest condolences on the passing of your dear mother. Praying for peace and comfort for you and the family. I slept quite a bit yesterday which made sleeping last night quite difficult and now I am very very tired and feeling nerve pain again. It is like a cruel joke. So more resting today and trying to avoid…

Good Morning Steve, I am glad you got some actual accounting done. It seems that the move went fairly well, so well done. I made the trip up the stairs to our bedroom yesterday finally and slept in our bed. Its only been a few days so I have a long ways to go. Getting up to use the bathroom in the night wakes me up due to…

Good Morning I haven’t had a good nights sleep in a while and I am feeling it. Another exciting day of not doing too much again today. Mostly I am trying to remember to get up and walk around. Sam, is there a plan for your knee yet?

Good Morning Steve, congratulations on your and Connie agreeing on a retirement date. It is a big step. Let the countdown begin! I called my surgeons after hours number where the voice mail wasn’t functioning. A couple hours later he saw someone had called it and was able to retrieve the number and called and went over the…

Good Morning Steve it is wonderful to hear positive results and a positive tone given the stress and pressures at work. Keep it going! The surgery was a bit of an adventure. The initial paperwork was incorrect and had to be redone. 75 minutes after it was supposed to start I was asked if I had ever gotten an EKG, a point…

Good Morning There is a lot going on isn't there? Steve, that must have been a fun conversation. "Oh Steve, it would be great if we could move tomorrow rather than wait till Monday. Do we have year end financials yet?" I love being retired! I finally got a call at 7:30 last night from the Surgery Center, to review prep for…

Good Morning Suprise rainfall last night has things a bit soggy out there. Heather and I are off to the movies to see Dune 2 at the local Pub Cinema and lunch which we are looking forward to. My Friday surgery is up in the air now after a phone call from the practice who did the pre op that my cardiologist will call to…

Good Morning Sam, I remember the nerve test I had back in 2015. Seemed like something out of a Frankenstein movie. Enjoy! I do hope the MRI discovers the cause of the balky knee and points at a solution. Yesterday was a tough day for me pain wise. Dr stuff seems to have gone well. He wants my Cardiologist to sign off on…

Good Morning I would imagine moving a working factory would be a challenge to the team dynamic of any organization. It sounds like you might have a pretty good group to work with Steve. Final hurdle is todays pre op mini physical this morning. All the tests have been run so I don’t expect any glitches. I don’t think my gut…

Good Morning I am sorry, Lee, that you are watching your wonderful practice being run so poorly. It sounds like once again you are at that point of deciding if it is worth it to hang in there. I am going back on to more restricted eating based on the paperwork I received during my radiation treatments. I have lost ground…

Good Morning Glad to hear DS is recovering now Mike. Yesterday was cold and wet so we stayed in and ended up doing nothing. So I told Heather we needed to get up and out of the house today and not just lay around all day. So today we are off to a nearby Museum and then for a walk, indoors if necessary. Then home for…

Good Morning Steve, congratulations on your progress! Mike, there is nothing in emergency medicine that connotes any sense or awareness of emergency. 12 hours is a long time to hang in there for your son without being seen. There prioritization remains a mystery. I assume Emergency Medicine doesn’t generate enough profit…

Good Morning Dave the extended restrictions post surgery are my only concern with my procedure next Friday. 10 lbs isn’t much and 3 months “or so” seems like an eternity. Hang in there! I go off Celecoxib, my anti-inflammatory and asprin today. Just as cold wet weather rolls into town for a stretch. I imagine my arthritis…

Good Morning Apple Crisp sounds good. Thankfully my recipe book for that one is packed away in storage. A warm apple crisp with a bit of vanilla ice cream is a joy. Best to keep moving past that one. Rain is moving in today for the weekend. Heather is under the weather, so I stayed in most of the day except for a grocery…

Good Morning Nicely down to those who are making progress weight-wise. I am making progress again down 1.2 this past week and somehow holding level while on our trip. We got out for a good walk yesterday at a wooded park down the road in Livermore that comes out by the olive groves of Olivina, a local olive oil producer. I…

Good Morning Happy Birthday Connie! My insurance complaints lessened considerably once I got on Medicare with the exception of prescription drugs. Same supplemental plan, same medication has gone from $400/yr to $200/yr in 2 years. No justification beyond the profit motive. All my meds have gone up. I used to pay very…