Worrying about past mistakes is stupid... unless you don't learn from your mistakes. In that case, probably everything that you do is stupid. Me, August 2000
That, of course, is a continuation of the political trend...
Gore is ahead in the polls right now, and that is meaningless. However, Bush is looking like a real bumbler lately when speaking of the budget and tax cuts. If there are any head-to-head debates, they will be interesting.
I'm getting the idea that Gore does most of his own thinking, whilst Bush is getting some advice from dads former advisors, and he can't really memorize all that stuff that well, nor can he really comprehend it. He needs to be able to do one or the other, dammit, to look good, and he needs to be able to understand it to run the country.
I do hope that never comes to pass... him running the country. If it does, I might be running from my country...
11.56...
First, the legs. He agreed with my estimation that the problem was probably not only the arteries in the legs, it was the heart too. In other words, the legs would be fine if the heart was doing a proper job. He had a name for it, but I can't remember it now... a functional something-or-another... not claudication... dammit, I just hate it when that happens. Anyway, he gave me some new (permanent) medication that is supposed to greatly reduce the risk of arterial clotting by increasing the slickness of the platelets in your blood. This, along with the cholesterol and triglyceride-reducing stuff that I'm taking, should allow me to live forever. Or close enough... I'd just like to be able to retire at a normal age.
OK. Next problem: smoking. He agreed also that smoking was exacerbating my other problems. The plan to quit: Zyban and Buspar. Now, I'd tried Buspar before with absolutely no effect whatsoever... but he said that they found out that they were underprescribing the amount. So this script has tripled the amount.
It'll be two weeks before I actually quit, and I was pretty psyched up to quit this coming Saturday, but I guess I'll wait for the meds to take effect... go with the program.
Tinnitis. The ringing in the ears that I found some stuff about on the web, a new treatment. The reason that I think that it might work for me is in this entry. The doc had never heard of it, but he was going to run it by some of the EENT guys in their group and get back with me.
I sure would like to be able to hear like I usta. In fact, the tinnitis has been getting worse lately, and it really does affect my concentration.
And the last thing... several of the meds I'm on can be replaced with generics, but you have to have a script written specially to do that, so he wrote me a coupla extra scripts for meds that I'm already on.
I ran the scripts by Walgreens then came home. I decided to do some work on the back deck before it got too hot to be out, but it was already that way... I persisted despite the heat, and I got part of the deck stained. By later this afternoon, I'll move all of the stuff that I can to the stained part and start washing the other parts again so that I can stain them. There are, however, a number of boards that will need to be replaced partially... I was going to do that first, but now I think that I'll stain first, replace what I have to, then stain again. Redwood is beautiful when it's stained...
Walgreens just emailed me, so I'm going to go pick up the meds and run some other errands, then I have a party to go to...
Yep, me going to a party. The hospital just had a big inspection (JCAHCA) and radiology did really well. So there will be a party at a bar and, for a change, I decided that I want to go.
I might even have some non-alcoholic beer!
More tomorrow...
I had a visit with my MD this morning, ostensibly about my legs but I also drug in a lot of other things...