Category: Health Matters

Got nagging symptoms?

pharmacy product shelf
Had Influenza Type-A for 10 days. Now, another 10 days after the symptoms and fever disappeared, i’m still coughing. Lungs clear, but something ain’t right.

Lungs feel clear.

However, there’s a persistent throat clearing cough that is in it’s 10th day. And this is after 10-days of Influenza Type-A.

Physician’s Assistant said this may last weeks, possibly months.

Meanwhile, we cannot rule out this is simply a side-effect from post-nasal drip from a more than 20-year battle against pollen allergies.

Time will tell.

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The need to grow, body

Waterfront view from a hotel room balcony at night
We lived here for weeks. A 1.5-mile walk to the Pacific Ocean.

Here we are, 14 months post retina-repair surgeries (there were two, 3-weeks apart). And a several-month Summer (2024) Glacier trip. Not to mention Cataract surgery in May. And you know what?

i’ve become flabby.

Thought Glacier would shred me and tone me.

Not this Summer.

i played it safe by backing off the gas peddle. Less miles. Lower intensity.

It’s literally disrespectful, if i’m being real with myself. This is my worst physical state in 25 years.

The great news?

i’m alive and lucid.

How cool is that?

i’m growing by adding this unprecedented life experience to my life resume.

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Rest is pro-level

Apple iPhone alarm app screenshot
Got eight hours of sleep last night, but had to sleep-in two hours past my normal routine in order to get those eight. Knowing today is a rest day, there was no need to be out before sunrise, walking.

Just had a crazy thought. Imagine that.

If you want to be pro-level at something, wouldn’t the first and obvious path be personal vibrancy?

Move.

Rest.

Fuel.

Simplicity is operational genius.

Since you’re in charge, make your life ridiculously simple.

And then be brilliant at the basics (move, rest, fuel).

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Every day is Thanksgiving

gourmet meal at mountain chalet
Thanksgiving dinner at a high-mountain chalet.

Food is fuel.

Food is essential.

Once, only rich people ate sugar.

Now, every one does.

Sugar is the new smoking.

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Scary when you think about it

9-second video: biking home from Magic Kingdom. Stopped briefly for three sets of kiddie gym exercises.
Mickey orange pumpkin Halloween baseball caps
Not quite mid-August. Let the Halloween festivities begin.

Scary when you think about it.

Think about what?

Becoming so physically inactive you can’t remember what it feels like to be physically vibrant.

Even scarier, to be okay with this for the rest of your life.

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