My annual health check-up has been moved up from end of October to end of September which means I have only two weeks to adjust my routine in order to fool the blood test. To be fair, I don’t have to make any major tweaks. I start every morning with apple cider vinegar, olive oil and physillium. I do a shot of kefir before every meal. My lunches are bountiful but my dinners are usually light and I bookend my day with stretches and cardio. No eating after 6:00 p.m. and I’ve informed Akemi I’l be limited myself to a mere single dessert every two days (not counting dark chocolate which is a daily indulgence but I don’t really count as dessert). Also, until my appointment, I’ll be alternating my dinner between sardines canned in olive oil and soft-boiled eggs, both with fruit and green veggies. Last time I was in, my cholesterol was creeping up so curious to see how this new diet and physillium routine changes things – if at all. I have a friend my age whose blood pressure has been creeping up despite his lifestyle changes. No doubt genetics have a lot to do with it. Don’t recall my father suffering from either high blood pressure or high cholesterol. His serious health issues were self-induced, the result of a lifetime of smoking. My mother, on the other hand, has proven fairly resilient despite a diet heavily weighted towards frying in corn oil – until about a little over a year ago. But, to be fair, she’s 91.
Also, the last time I was in, I got on the treadmill and had them run an EKG that showed something they called “scooping” which looked ominous on the graph but the doctor didn’t seem particularly concerned so I guess I shouldn’t be (?).
While I’m in,, I should also mention the fact that, over the past three months or so, my neck has been stiffening up at night (possibly the very latent effects of being hit by a cyclist and bouncing my head off the pavement back in January). I’m fine during the day but I wake up in the dead of night, incredibly sore. Also, I’ve noted the occasional flash headache (coming and going in seconds) and wondering what that’s about. Remind me to ask.
Otherwise, a-okay. I’ve got a big week ahead of me starting tomorrow when I join Darren Sumner for what will no doubt be another Stargate-centric chat on his Dial the Gate channel…
That’s 10 am PT/1 pm ET. If you have questions, you can post them in the chat and Darren or I will field them.
Then, Monday, I’m doing a Q&A for a comic book class (For real!), followed by a pre-pitch call. The actual pitch is on Wednesday. I’ll be pitching a t.v. adaptation of a cult fantasy/horror film from the 90’s. The hope is that my idea will so wow the studio that they will actually want to develop it.
Other than that, I’ve got some reading to do! I’m 8 2025 crime reads away from 200 and the release of a full ranked annotated rundown. Watch for it!
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