For years I’ve set my alarm on weekday mornings for 8:30. I decided last night to move my schedule up half an hour and wake up at 8:00. The alarm went off, I woke up, turned off the alarm, and fell right back to sleep and didn’t wake up until 8:29. This adjustment might take some time.
Yesterday I saw my rheumatologist Dr. Kumthekar. How would you pronounce that? You’re wrong. Try again. Nope, wrong again. You will never get it right. It’s come-tick-er. I love that I love my doctors, both he and Dr. Kwah my GI are not just good doctors but people I like. Dr. Kumthekar is sending me for physical therapy and I won’t see him again unless I have a problem. I’m going six months till I see Dr. Kwah again. I have to schedule my surgery with Dr. Malcher. I thought I had an appointment with him but I didn’t. I was good just now and made it. That’s exactly the kind of thing I have difficulty with, therapy and meds must be doing some good. My project of getting all my health needs taken care of is working well. This afternoon I’ll go for physical therapy.
I’m somewhat skeptical of the PT for my back. From what I’ve read not much helps back pain but time. As the pain comes and goes it is very easy to convince yourself that a treatment helps but it is likely just coincidence. When I’ve had pain before people have suggested I try things. I didn’t. The pain went away. Maybe people suggesting treatments is an effective treatment. I have my doubts about that. If the PT wasn’t two blocks away I might not try it but as it’s so convenient I might as well. He’s not recommending it but I wouldn’t have an invasive procedure; they have limited efficacy. Right now my back pain is an annoyance, using a heating pad and taking acetaminophen when needed will suffice.
I have a new food obsession, Aldi’s sliced chocolate chip brioche. My only issue with it is that I can finish a loaf in one sitting. Put some peanut butter on it and it’s a slice of heaven. I’m debating going to Aldi today just to buy more.
We are less than three weeks into baseball season and I’ve already lost one of my Mets caps. This is ridiculous, I keep losing them. I suspect that I left it in the cart last time I went grocery shopping. I’ve done that before. It’s frustrating, I wear baseball caps often. This time of year, every day. When it gets hotter I’ll switch to broader brim hats for sun protection, but a baseball cap is my default. It’s how I picture myself. I used to have dozens of them. Now I have one good one and a few giveaways that are better than nothing but don’t sport my colors, Mets or WFUV. Some people wear their hearts on the sleeves, I wear mine on top of my head.
Losing my cap just three weeks into the season when I have a history of losing my caps is significant. Players stats three week into the season is not. Players stats one week into the season are meaningless, yet on my baseball groups I see people who thought one-week stats were more significant than what players have done over their careers. Brandon Nimmo of the Mets had a slow first week and people were complaining that he was batting leadoff or even playing. He was one of the top outfielders last year with a WAR of 4.5, but based on a week of play someone said, “He’ll never be more than a fourth outfielder.” He has already been better than that so it was impossible that it could be “never.” Haven’t these people ever followed baseball before? Every season there are bad players off to hot starts and great players off to poor ones. Have they really never noticed that? That psychology is something I wish I understood better. I can’t relate to it at all.
I every much suspect that sort of thinking is how Trump could get elected. Considering how irrational people are perhaps the surprising thing is that democracy works at all. It shouldn’t be surprising though, it’s the wisdom of the masses. Why people make mistakes they are often random so the average is correct. Think of large groups singing together, not choirs, but the general public. It usually sounds good even though individually people’s tones are sharp and flat. They average out to where they belong. It’s not perfect but it’s good enough for government work … with some notable exceptions.
Wise Madness 