Doug Puthoff's Blog of Destiny–unless other noted all contents copyright Doug Puthoff
I set my alarm at five o’clock, though sometimes I forget to turn it on. Usually I go to bed at around nine-thirty every evening, unless there’s a sporting event I want to watch on TV.
BOOK: ORWELL: THE LIFE by D.J. Taylor
MUSIC: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON by Pink Floyd
TV–YouTube videos.
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I changed my blogging website from LiveJournal to WordPress. I was having issues with LiveJournal, so I decided a switch was called for. So, if you’re following me from LiveJournal, welcome back. If you’re here for the first time, welcome aboard. Grab a chair and sit down.
The best piece of advice I’ve ever received was something my dad told me time and time again:
STOP AND THINK!
Unfortunately, it’s one of my greatest problems: Not stopping and thinking. I’m not sure it has anything to do with my Asperger’s. And I thinking it’s getting worse.
After I’ve done something, I go off and do something else and not taking an inventory that I’ve completely finished the first job. This behavior has been receiving more complaints from my mother, with whom I live.
I don’t know what the problem is, I’ve had for as far as I can remember. Am I afraid I’m going to be later for something? Is it become I have my head up my butt? Am I thinking about what I need to do next? Am I worried that I’m not going to finish everything I want to do before the end of the day/the week/my life? I don’t know.
MOVIES: “Sunset Boulevard.”
TV: The World Cup. (Dang! We stank against Belgium.
BOOK: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Music: ANYTHING FOR A THRILL–Steely Dan
I still have eight more days till my fifteen-pound lifting restriction ends; that’s the only restriction I have left.
However, I am making progress on my walking. Before my December collapse, I walked for about three miles, maybe more. Soon after I’d left rehab in mid-January, I started doing therapy to help me restore my strength and my endurance. I’m now doing it by myself.
I’ve started walking again, first for about five minutes, then I began to increase the time. There is a walking/running track in a park nearby to where I live. I’ve been walking on that. Now I’m walking up to an hour a day.
March Marches On!
I wanted to load a photo of somebody else besides Elsa, so I downloaded this instead.
The old adage says, “March comes in like a lion and goes out a lamb.” Ohio, however, is different. In my state, March comes and goes any time it jolly well please.
Sunday, for example, the temperatures reached a record high of 83 degrees F. But yesterday evening, the temperature dived to the 30s. Our area had a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but my neighborhood managed to dodge the really nasty stuff.
The high today was only in the low- to mid 40s.
That’s life in Ohio.
MOVIE–“Meet me in St. Louis.
MUSIC–“Death Becomes Her”–Original Broadway Cast.
The weather has grown–generally that is–warmer. This means more animals have been showing up in our front- and backyards. Squirrels. birds, chipmunks, and even racoons and possums have appeared. Petey, of course, has taken notice of this, and is spending more time watching the outside to make sure those animals doing get too pushy.
MOVIE–“Meet Me in St. Louis”
Tuesday afternoon I visited the surgeon who performed my bowel restructuring last month. He said I was doing fine, and he discharged me. My only restriction is that I can’t lift more than fifteen pounds until April 1st.
Early yesterday afternoon, a nurse came to our house to check me out. She also said I was doing fine.
Once again, I thank everybody for their prayers and good wishes.
MOVIES–“The Deer Hunter,” “Apocalypse Now”
TV–YouTube documentary about Richard Burton (the one who married Liz Taylor twice)
MUSIC–SarahSingsUK
Friday morning, my brother Mike came over. He removed the bandage over the incision the surgeon made during my operation the previous week, not to mention the gadget that monitored it. That was the good news. The bad news is that there is a collection of bruises around it. Fortunately, they seem to be fading away. I was also on prescription painkilling pills after I’d been dismissed by the Upper Miami Medical Center, but I stopped taking them a few days ago. If I now need feel pain, I swallow some store brand Tylenol.
Thanks for all your prayers everybody! God bless you all!
MUSIC–This video featuring SarahSingsUK and Musical Chrissy–(https://www.tiktok.com/@serenadersarah/video/7369217887275470113)
This past Wednesday, my brother Mike drove me to the Upper Valley Medical Center for my operation on my intestines. After registering I was whisked off to a preparation room, where nurses took my vital signs, stuck an IV in me, and gave me some anesthetic.
After spending ninety minutes in the prep room I was wheeled into an operating room. That was the last thing I remembered before fell asleep.
When I woke up, I was back in the prep room with a large bandage on my stomach. After a few minutes, I was wheeled into another room, where I spent two evening. I started on a liquid diet, but the next day I was switched to soft foods. I also took a little therapy.
Late Friday morning I was dismissed. Mom drove me home, where Petey was happy I’d returned.
TV–STRANGER THINGS, Olympics.
Book–RABBIT IS RICH, John Updike
Music-sarahsingsUK–(https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahsingsuk)
Tomorrow is the day. Last week, I was cleared to have my surgery tomorrow (Feb. 18th). It is scheduled at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time; I’m supposed to be there at six. I’m a bit nervous about it. All prayers and kind thoughts would be appreciated.
MUSIC–RUBBER SOUL, The Beatles and SarahSingsUK (https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahsingsuk?lang=en)
It’s either Pepsi Wild Cherry Zero Sugar or Michelob Ultra.
Fortunately for me, Michelob doesn’t make a Michelob Pepsi Wild Cherry Ultra.
Thank Heaven for little favors.
Movie–“Wicked for Good” (Loved it)
TV–JEOPARDY!
Over three weeks have passed since I returned from the nursing home. I’ve been seeing a whole hospital full of doctors. This past Monday morning, I took a chemical stress test instead of using a treadmill; people (me included) worried that I would fall of the treadmill. I passed it, so I’m cleared for surgery. Nurses and therapists have come to my residence to check up on me and to give me therapy. I’ve been given a list of exercises to do every day.
My pre-surgery appointment is this coming Wednesday, February 11, with my surgery schedule for the following Wednesday. All prayers and good thoughts are appreciated.
I’ll be glad when all of this stuff is over!
Music–SarahSingsUK (https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahsingsuk?lang=en)
Last-Minute Panic 