So finally the Fedex info is populated on my iphone delivery. It's somewhere between here and Houston. I talked to a friend this morning who received both of his today. I then called the front desk to discover I had a package and thought it was my iphone. Unfortunately, when I got home I found it was just my willmaker software.
So I resisted the impulse to rush home. Because I have to get the shot in my knee tomorrow and my doctor doesn't allow me to work out for at least 24 hours after the shot, I decided to go ahead and do a double tonight. I actually need to move to doing more doubles: I'm increasing my weights, though staying at 4 sets of 20 reps for most of them, but I'm getting through them more quickly. My weights workout used to take me a little north of an hour; today I warmed up with a mile on the elliptical and still finished everything in 45 minutes. My form isn't perfect, but one wall of the room is lined with mirrors, which I sorta find irresistible. After the 45 minute workout, I swam for 30 minutes -- 10 minutes freestyle, 10 alternating kicking and pulling, and 10 working the fly. Not a full double, but a nice workout, nonetheless. "Working the fly" sounds like i'm fairly adept at it, right? Not really. I manage not to be too embarassed, but swimming is kinda like playing the piano -- with enough practice, even people who aren't good can develop technique, but nothing makes up for a natural sense of timing.
Every day I struggle to go to the gym, and evey day I'm tempted to skip it. We joke in the locker room that the hardest part of the workout is getting to the gym. I was especially tempted today since I thought the iphone would be home, but am really glad I didn't ditch the workout. As I walked from the train to the gym, I saw all these people whose ability to even walk was hampered by the great weight they carry around. I could never see it when I was carrying around 100 extra pounds, and though I'm 50 lbs heavier than the BMI charts say I should be, I'm only about 30 lbs heavier than my best fighting weight. Even so, I feel all my extra weight, and I feel so bad for all the people who are still carrying around 100+ pounds of extra weight.
Watching the news tonight, there's lots of talk about the little girl who drowned while at the beach with her class. Please don't let it be true that the adults taking them didn't have permission to do so. I understand the beach was closed. Do we really have people charged with caring for our children who lack the common sense to realize that you ahve to get the parents' permission to take kids to the beach, and that you can't let kids swim in the ocean without lifeguards? I swim in a 20 yeard pool with a maximum depth of 10 feet. I've been swimming there so long I could probably do laps with my eyes closed, without counting strokes. I would never even go on deck without the guard being there. How do you take kids to the beach without their parents' permission? And how do you let them get into the ocean without a lifeguard?
So I'm going to the doctor tomorrow to get the shot in my knee. I get six shots, one in each knee, once a week for three weeks. I've always used OrthoVisc before, and that's what the doctor ordered. The pharmacy, which is contracted by BC/BS, will only ship SynVisc. They may be the same thing, but this is the first time in all my treatments that I've had pain on the other side of the knee (opposite to the side where the shots were administered). Don't know if it's related to the new med or not, but how does insurance get to decide which meds you get? If insurance companies are making the calls, what do we need doctors for? If doctors prescribe something, why doesn't insurance pay for it?
Then I see a story on the news about a ham sandwich. It's made from some kind of Spanish ham. In the picture, it looked like a bacon hero to me. But who pays $40.00 for a ham sandwich? Granted, my palate isn't very refined, but $40.00 for a sandwich?
Here's a word to acknowledge John Isner from the US and Nicholas Mahut from France. They're playing at Wimbledon, and so far have played the longest game in tennis history. They've served up a total of 193 aces: 98 for Isner and 95 for Mahut. both numbers are records. Before the match was suspended because of darkness, the score was tied 59-59 in the fifth set. The fifth set alone was longer than any other pro tennis game recorded so far. At the time the game was suspended, they had been playing for 9 hrs and 58 minutes.
THAT'S perseverance. Somebody give those guys a hand!!
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