I just got an e-mail from Andrea Lagan with all the forms and tasks I have to complete for Veteran Worlds. It's daunting. Not only that, apparently the Veteran Worlds team has an official armorer (Dan DeChaine) and a Team Leader (Andrea), and it also has several coaches - Vladymir Nazlymov and his son Vitali (I didn't think Vitali was coaching, he had another profession last time I heard) and Iryna Dolgikh (isn't she at Cornell?) and possibly a couple of referees. It asks for our sizes for adidas ...
Today is day two of caffeine de-tox. I woke with a headache, repressed the desire to vomit, and ate something relatively light and safe. I spent two hours at the gym today, doing 30 minutes on the ET followed by a relatively light lower body workout that re-added the 50-lunge-steps-across-the-gym while holding 5-lb weights so I expect the headache to be replaced by a buttache tomorrow morning. I ended the workout with PT in the hot tub followed by more PT in the locker area. Just ...
Today is my one-month kidney-versary. Four weeks ago I had a kidney transplant, the organ coming from a deceased donor. I achieved my goal of a pre-emptive transplant (i.e., no dialysis) through hard physical exercise seven days a week, but I had a lot of unpleasant symptoms so it was time. The recovery has been going well, with regular monitoring by the clinic to watch for signs of infection and incipient rejection. The first week out of the hospital I was able to walk a couple of ...
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