Medical Musings

An few axioms from the medical/surgical world, "Eat when you can, sleep when you can." As you never know what is going to happen in life, so don't get caught out by running yourself down. When an opportunity presents itself to take care of your needs, jump on it.

"Better is the enemy of good." Don't mess something that is good up by trying to make it better. Just like Bruce Lee said that thinking is the enemy of perfection this is the same deal. Some stuff just needs to be left well enough alone and for you to stop fiddling with it.

In personal medical stuff, 'cause that is a big theme recently, I finally have an appointment date with my UCSD referral. Monday October 24th. The real trick will be to see if my records from my HMO get there before I do. If not, I'm trying to get something prepared outside of official channels to cover me for their expected failure.

The chest pain I have had riding and running worries my doctor enough that I am scheduled for a bunch of lab tests and a stress echo. This is getting all hooked up to an EKG machine and then running on a treadmill. Once my heart rate is nice and high I lay down quickly and then they do an ultrasound of my heart. He marked the appointment request urgent, so I should have this done in the next couple weeks.

And in a month I should also know if my low testosterone is caused by having taken high doses of Prednisone or a pituitary gland problem.

If one's genes were the result of a lottery then I would be considered holding a losing ticket. Oh well. At least I'm not the dude who died earlier this week landing wrong off a jump mountain biking, just outside of San Diego. On a trail I rode 3 days before he died there.

Or the dude who died last month after getting bit by a rattlesnake near where I frequently trail run.