LURED/LURID An abbreviated version this week as we have been "lounging" at the lake with the grandson this weekend, His record intact, he hauled in about 15 blue gills. As we are on a catch and release program due to our total lack of interest in the cleaning and cooking elements, they live to fight another day. They ended up in a bucket for a while as one of the boy's arms is in a rigid cast making worm attachment and fish detachment a tad difficult. We agreed to his fire fetish Saturday night and roasted, rather burned, our token marshy mallows. When the OH asked about the chocolate and graham cracker additions I shut down operations. 1) JP will not really eat them; 2) they are messy as hell and 3) we don't need the extra cals.
Some fun activity every day this week with three involving medical personnel and/or treatments, a podcast recording and a haircut. So ending the week with my relentless pursuit of beauty. Or rather, a hairstyle that I can basically wash and wear which my stylist says is a bridge too far. Hah. She doesn't know how little I am willing to find acceptable.
INTERVIEW THIS My final poddie for the summer was supposed to happen last week, but first my interviewee wrote and had to have an unexpected and embarrassing medical issue taken care of. Rescheduling for this coming Tuesday (week later) I get two messages from him on Thursday of last week. As the second one was entitled "OOPS" I realized he had mixed up the days. Sigh. Well third time's the charm. My other interview was "interesting" to say the least.
As a long time Professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at MSU when he talks, people listen. He offered some controversial, perhaps, opinions on the origins of lung disease and blew up some "educated" comments from the internet trolls. However, we all know, people would rather believe their opinions reinforced by carefully mined nuggets from social media. He was not shy about pointing virtual fingers at those seeking to exploit the fears of the gullible with unnecessary and useless products and procedure sold to both businesses and homeowners alike. To put it another way, my example would be those who claim the miniscule amount of PCBs sealed in a transformer up on a pole causing their cancer rather than the cigarette or other drugs they enjoy having any impact. Used to drive me crazy as I'm spending all shift monitoring asbestos exposure on masked and gowned workers who come out on break and light up. My results are quantifiable-theirs are "just a feeling". The Doc also blew up a lot of "misinformation" on how harmful mold really is...not. Interesting.
IN MEDICAL NEWS First eye goes under the knife this week so basically a crap shoot on how well I see to read, write, shoot and play the banjo for a while. Which will heal (hopefully) in time for the second eye to be slashed a week later.
Update on the nerve noodle, nodule, fragment, whatever, in my spine. It hasn't changed in a couple of years so full steam ahead on the laminectomy, I guess. Hate to see what insurance is paying on that little consult. Bones do grow back and together. They take the piece of bone out of my back that's been squeezing my spinal cord like a boa constrictor and tuck it between two vertebrae where it grows together like a little bone stent keeping the dueling vertebrae apart - cool.
AND FINALLY AMPHIBIANS I don't mind raindrops falling on my head, but when I opened the front door and had this little fellow nail my noggin, I jumped like a bead of oil on a sizzling pan or a frog on a hot tinned roof. (No animals were harmed in the making of this picture.)
Peace out.....💚 💙💛
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