Good morning Dear Reader,
This morning I feel the best I’ve felt in three weeks. I finally got a good night’s sleep with some time in the “deep sleep” zone. If I don’t get a good seven hours of sleep, then my day goes pretty much like the famous quote from the great Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” Dear reader, I think you know what I’m saying. When you’re dragging your *** through the day because you didn’t get a good quality sleep the night before, every little thing seems to be a momentous chore, like the dishes in the sink that need to be rinsed and put in the dishwasher. The towels on the kitchen floor, and I don’t even feel like bending over and picking them up. It makes for a very tough and challenging day. My motivation is low or nonexistent to take action and get things done. So what ends up happening is I look at my calendar of action items which I keep in Google Calendar, and I just say to myself, “I fucking don’t feel like it.” I have strung about 14 of those days together up to this point. My caregiving effort also becomes sub-par. So now today is a new day, and the past is just that, nothing more.
So here I am writing this down because I want to get it into this blog right now. On my Google Calendar, I have from Monday through Saturday in the time slot of 8:00 to 10:00 o’clock the word “writing.” I don’t specify what I’m going to write about. It’s just that discipline of sitting down in front of this microphone where I’m dictating my thoughts onto a word page.
So here is what has happened in my life. I’ve been working on getting up to speed on my medical health side of things. In the past few months, I have seen my primary physician 3 times and had several trips to the blood lab and orthopedic surgeons. And here’s what’s going on.
.1.) I have confirmed high calcium, which is out of the normal range, which means that I have been diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism. This is a condition where the hyperthyroid is overactive and is essentially is pumping calcium from my bones into my bloodstream. OK, so we’re looking at surgery to see what the story is and at the same time remove any of these minor (the size of a rice kernel) glands that have most likely an adenoma on the surface. But, again, it’s an outpatient procedure. I’m just waiting now to hear back from the Norman Institute in Tampa, Florida (where I live) for an appointment with the specialists. Several of the symptoms of this condition are fatigue due to poor sleep quality and irritability.
2.) I have a total knee replacement surgery scheduled now for August 30th. This has been a long time coming, and actually, it is something that I want. As a personal trainer and a very fit athlete (cycling), I know that this is the road to having greater strength and mobility. Also, as a former triathlete, it will be great to see that I will be able to run again, albeit not too much and only on a soft surface like a high school track.
Dear reader, I am out of time… I’ve got work to do (my business). Thank you so much for visiting with me.