[gameprogrammer] Re: Good questions

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:19 -0700, Ray Gomez-Bravo wrote:
> Snip>>The first thing they did when they got me on the table was to
>       do an angiogram that showed that all the previous tests were
> dead  wrong. My trust in doctors is at an all time low!
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> That, Bob, is why they call it "practice" . . . No matter how much they
> think they know, the more practice they need.  That is why I call them
> "Quacks", sounds better than "Docs".  Interestingly, your case is just
> the opposite of mine.  They would examine me and send me home, "You're
> Okay".  Finally, one day I got home from the lab, told my other half I
> did not feel well and off we went to the local emergency clinic. After a
> heated discussion the other half and the "Quack" hospitalized me because
> people in my condition normally survive the night. At the hospital, a
> specialist arrived, and we spent the night having fun...they had the fun
> while I was probed, prodded, drugged, and generally made even more
> uncomfortable than I already felt. When daylight was as bright as it
> would get he delivered his opinion like this: "I don't know why the test
> don't show extremely abnormal results.  However, I have placed your name
> on the transplant list."  Then he proceeded to explain to me the
> benefits of regular physical exams, placed me on a diet of drugs and
> "good food".
> 
> Anyway, before that I use to run a lot.  Sometimes just for fun, I'd jog
> up to 26.2 miles. It beats exercise machines.  The end of the story is,
> nearly a year later I got a transplant.  

What a nightmare, I am glad you are still alive. Doctors really don't
seem to be very good at what they do. 

I have had the experience of telling them what I do for a work out and
then trying to stop them from lecturing me on how I should work out...
They simply do not believe what you tell them. It makes me want to
scream. I have even invited them to come and try out my work out, but
they are never interested in a real work out. They don't eat the way
they tell you to eat and they don't exercise the way they tell you to
exercise. And, they don't believe you when you tell them the truth.

> I can't run anymore. The thing
> is, the other half bought us a Nordic track over 20 years ago.  It is
> still in unused condition.  I can't watch paint dry. 

I understand, I actually wore one out, but I used to work out and design
software in my head, or listen to good rock-n-roll, or even watch tv
while I used the thing.

> So for good health
> I tend to hang my belly over the edge of a laptop, lean back in a easy
> chair and compute away.
> 
> One last thing.  Live long, live health, and enjoy whatever you,
> wherever you do it, with whom ever you do it.

You said it. Explore the whole realm of life while you still can.

        Bob Pendleton

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