At least I think so. Starting to feel much better today. Thanks for the get well comments!
Went to the doctor today. It took me two months to get into the Army hospital for an appointment and the original problem was the crick in my neck, which resolved itself weeks ago. But given that I am of an age, I am going to do the complete physical thing to see what kind of damage my lifestyle might be wreaking on this tired old body.
So the cute little Korean reception person took my vitals and history. Smoke? check. Drink? check. High blood pressure? Yep. (144 over 86, but then I smoked a fag just before going in). Overweight? Actually, I qualify as obese. So, what else is new?
So, Dr. Lee asks why I’m there. I think medical folks don’t have much patience (heh, patients) for people like me who don’t take any proactive interest in maintaining good health. I professed a desire to change my ways, but I wanted to make sure it was not too late before I went through all the hassle of actually altering my lifestyle.
So, today we did the chest x-ray. Tomorrow I will get blood work done. And I will schedule the dreaded colonoscopy (I can’t pronounce or spell that procedure). She also gave me a prescription for zyban so I can quit smoking. Which I may attempt here soon. As soon as I get my test results back!
So, despite feeling rather poorly all weekend I did play a lot of darts. Friday night at Dolce, Dan and I took the tourney, beating Seung Yeob and Rick. The most memorable thing for me was taking the last leg of the championship game with a 48 out. Double 8, double 8, double 8. Yeah, the first two were misses, but still…
Saturday night at the big Blue Frog farewell to Doug and Tom, I teamed up with Chris B. for a 3rd place finish. We might have done better, but we couldn’t hit when we had too against Alastair and Billy. They took us out of both the winners and losers bracket with some smokin’ ’01 play. The tourney technically ended in a tie because the Championship round didn’t start until 12:30 am. Karl and his partner Rod took the first game, but Rod is a soldier and had a 1 am curfew to deal with. Total purse for 1st and 2nd was W450,000, so Alastair and Billy graciously agreed to split it almost evenly and everyone went home happy.
Sunday I played in my first soft tips tourney out on the far side of Seoul (near the end of line 6). I played decent but didn’t make the money round, finishing in 5th. It was definitely different. 90% Koreans, but they were mostly very kind and gracious to the Yankee interlopers. I could have done better but I let myself get distracted by an opponents handicap rating that appeared to be sandbagging. As I told myself later, that’s bullshit. If you can’t overcome 30 points you don’t deserve to win. Lesson learned for next time.
Last night we had our league matchup with White Horse from Blue Frog. Gawd, I was awful. I struggled all night. How bad was I? In doubles teamed up with Alastair and Petro we went 2-4. And that was all on me. I was fortunate to sweep my singles match 3-0, but I was damn lucky because Won Jun had me on the ropes a couple of times, only to let me sneak away with the win. That won’t happen often against him or anyone else. I’m not playing up to my capabilities and I am damn sure not playing like someone who belongs in A division. Hopefully last night was my wake up call.
Still, its all good.
Smoke -check; drink-check; high blood pressure -nope try 110/60; cholesterol-127. (Yes I am gloating) BMI-25. I would like to lose 10 lbs for asthetic reasons. The doctor says I am perfect. I got a prescription for Chantrix. After a week I had to go off of it. So looks like I either keep smoking or go cold turkey. Lose some weight and the rest will follow.
How pathetic of a comment.
You think so? This is a man who from time to time speaks as if his death were looming just before him. He has bad habits and worse at times a very negative outlook. He is however very competitive. So if my gloating and plain speaking goads him in to losing weight and dial down the bad habits then that is a good thing. Oddly enough I don’t want him to die and I hate it when he is depressed.
I apologize. I took it to mean you were gloating…….as in kicking someone when they are down. That based on the comment the Doctor says you are perfect. Obviously John had gone to the Doctor and is trying to address some of those issues. One last thing I’d like to ask. You mentioned Chantrix. I have my own Doctors appointment the 18th. What were the side effects that made you stop. Most people say it’s like 90% affective?
Food would not stay in my body. I had serious heartburn so the doctor conjectured the Chantix in concert with my stomach acids was just too much for me. He told me to try again later when I returned to normal.