Daily Success September 5 – Disappointing. Camino success took second place to a lot of other success “stuff.”

Daily Success Yesterday

Daily success yesterday really focused on doctors (the injection from Dr. Sheikh happened as planned and seems to be helping as of getting out of bed this morning … knock on concrete) and doctor planning (my memory apparently “played me false” about the MRI done by Higgins; it must have been an X-ray) for a lot of lost time; and the Bomb Acoustic Technology Systems (BATS) effort where real progress seems to be being made.

Daily Success Today

Daily success today begins with visiting Dr. Levine to get an opinion on back surgery. That will be informed a bit more next week when the SI Joint injection is supposed to be effective. Saturday, maybe; Monday for sure if it’s going to work. But as noted above, “so far, so good” as the optimist said as he passed each floor after falling off a tall building.

The bike will begin the day. Stretches and exercise will have to be squeezed into the time before 5:30 as we are having dinner with Bill and Paula at Cinco. That should be fun as it’s been at least six weeks since we’ve seen them. Plus, they may be interested in the BATS. Who knows? The name is Bill’s suggestion, but unlikely to be the final answer.

And Nabila’s mail. That may be scheduled either before Cinco, which is early, or after, which is late. We shall see.

Daily Success in the Future

Daily success in the future depends on how effective Dr. Sheikh’s latest injection is. Overdoing things at the end of vacation and coming home led to me having to lie down on the airport floor while the passport line crawled forward after we arrived at Newark. It was horrible, the second worst pain I’ve ever experienced. And merely the culmination of what seemed like a very minor injury that happened on the Camino on July 11th of last year. I should do a “My Camino Day” of that event to link it here.

This injection may address that at long, long last.

I am hopeful, but not confident. This has been going on for going on 14 months and none of the diagnoses have led to treatments that worked.

In the longer term, BATS plan under construction seems almost to make sense. If it does, and we can make it work, we can save lives, help Third World economies damaged by conflicts, and maybe even make some money. It is a long shot, but one that seems worth trying.

And then there is hospitalero training, getting excited … airplane a week from tomorrow.