Wednesday, May 5, 2010

oh my heart and lungs! or day 419

it's spring which can only mean it's time again for the annual doctor parade. and a parade it is! last week, i had my annual cardiologist and pulmonologist appointments, which were #20 and 21 on the list. my heart and lungs are fine, as i has expected, but it's nice to have hard evidence. plus, i got to put a thing that looked not unlike a nipple clamp on my nose, sit in a weird chamber, and blow into a apparatus to measure my lung capacity and strength. this doesn't happen every day. this week, i went to my muscle speialist, which doesn't fulfill anything on the list, but i thought i'd mention it. i'm apparetnly stronger than i was 2 years ago and more or less have permission to never walk up stairs again if i don't want to. i felt like a wee bit of a failure because i couldn't last weekend at val's, but i was assured that my muscles have been deconditioned since i moved and don't use stairs anymore. when asked if i felt like i needed to, i realized, no. no i don't. screw you stairs!

#12 on the list is to go to austin. i've updated that to in process because i have a road trip planned for the end of june. it will include a spa, bbq, wrestling, and daisun-although not all of these things at once.