March 25, 2006

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Two blogs posts in one day! Imagine that :)
Here is the thing I want to communicate. Its short and sweet and its meant for all you men out there primarily. As I blogged before, when you reach the magical age of 50, come down off that idea that you’re indestructible. No fellow men beings… You are not. Decidedly not. Its worth that much to head to the doctor’s and get checked. I lived all these years not knowing or perhaps wondering and it turns out I had High Blood Pressure. Take care of yourselves fellow beings. My daughter told me “daddy take care of yourself; you gotta be with me for a long time”.

I waited longer than I should have and it meant I had to do more and take more. Why even wait to 50. Go make an appointment with a doctor. I was very lucky. My wife being a RN found a doctor for me and we hit it off. I was also lucky that genetically I am not predisposed to high bad cholesterol. Check that out definitely and do the other things around certain organs. In my case I have had to do a few things which were emberassing or at the time made me uncomfortable or less than manly. But you manly men! You can all do this too. I am not a sterling example of fitness. I drink too much, eat too much. But in the end for me, eating what AFT calls bar food has not caught up with me at all. Check out both types of cholesterol. Here’s a place to find out. WebMD offers a lot of other advice. And before you complain…

Yes. It is worth it.

More chaos unfortunately.  Since we are just puny human beings often the things we say and mean and the things we say and don’t mean cause major issues.  I think communication is delicate and its deadly.  Especially if we “assume” that a person is approaching the same pain point we are in the same way, with the same degree of confidence, and with the same degree of understanding.  Without a shared starting point to things, its difficult to reach a satisfactory concluion many times.  Instead we jump all around building even more chaos.

The challenge for me in all this is to try to build bridges and not fences.  Fences don’t work and if you want someone to come to the table prepared to discuss a thng; don’t assume you can whisper over a fence and be heard. 

What I’ve learned of late is that communication definitely is a delicate and deadly act.  I’m glad its Saturday.  Now communication is limited to a few avenues.