Clinic Visits and Knee Bends

I had my 6 month check up with the clinic this week.  The one where you give them about 9 vials of blood and get slathered with that cold gel for the echocardiogram.  The clinic seems to be shifted somewhere in the hospital every time I come in to visit now so I had to wind my way around to finally find it in Cardiology of Tulsa's offices.  After going over what I have been doing (and they weren't really thrilled to hear that I'd taken on another job) and haven't been doing (enough exercise although they were happy I was doing some strength training) I spent some quality time with Dr. T.

The good doc had been battling a cold last week so he kindly wore his mask while visiting with all of us.  Bloodwork results and echo results were great and I was released to come back in 3 months for more bloodwork and 6 months for my annual.  Even my "regular" doc was happy with my glucose rating (which had dropped 1.2 points since May) but sadly had to inform me that he was retiring in December.  His 61 year old wife was just diagnosed with Alzheimer's and he and his son decided it would be best to spend whatever quality time they had left in Arkansas surrounded by family.  I truly understand that.  So, when I see him in November I'll be meeting my new primary care doc (someone in his office) and establishing a new relationship.

My strength training has been going pretty well if inconsistent.  I've been trying to get at least 30 minutes in with Mike every Friday but sometimes he has church related events and sometimes I have school related events.  Yesterday my knee begin to get that old twinge of bad ligaments so we stretched out my quads and hamstrings to see if that would help....and now I can hardly move!  Crestor will cause your muscles to cramp up and we thought maybe that was part of it...maybe we overstretched a little??  All I know is that trying to sit down on the "john" has become a lot of moans and groans...and I don't see too much relief in sight.

On a good note, however, OSU beat A&M today! 

Sometimes, you just have to end with a good note.