Day Nine - Inching closer…
How do you like me now?
All right, it's on the 15th, which is my brother's birthday. Happy birthday, Joe! I talked to him briefly. We have a bunch of July birthdays. It's also the ninth day of the next 10 years of creation. A lot of work got done on the website today, but it has not been officially launched yet, and I have a few more things to do. It's very, very close, and I'm very happy about that.
My sweetheart is at the beach in Brookings today, and I miss her. We are very, very good together, and we are able to go off and do things sometimes, but we always long for each other then. But she's in one of her favorite places in the world, which is right by Harris beach in Brookings. Brookings is an incredible place to hang out, so I just spoke with her.
This has been a day of, I would say, reckoning with the various different recommendations that my doctor suggested based on all of the blood work that she did, all the tests that she had me do, which are numerous. She always does many, many tests.
It's worth saying that two important things came out of that visit. These are things that are important to me in relationship to my next 10 years of creation!
One is that this shakiness of my hands, which I may have mentioned, that I have experienced for a number of years and done all kinds of things to see if I could correct, is probably what is called a “benign essential tremor”, and there is a protocol that I can follow that may make it better. It is genetic. My mother had this at a certain age, and it does tend to get worse over time, but perhaps with this protocol, it could be improved. We'll see about that.
I may talk about that more in a separate video, because many people experience this at a certain age, and I'm not sure this particular protocol is well known. So that's one thing.
The other thing that came out of it is this: there is a marker of heart health called APO-B. There's a great researcher and podcaster, Dr. Peter Attia, who is focused on health span, not just life extension, but health extension. and the way that he describes the significance of APO-B is that the number of your APO-B is a causal factor in heart disease, and typically, if your APO B is around 80, that's considered good. If it's up closer to 120 that's when it gets into the danger zone. Mine is 145. My doctor told me that I have the highest APO-B of anyone in her practice, and I don't tolerate statins very well. So there are some other pharmaceuticals that we are trying. There are a variety of things that can be done, but I'm taking it as a very serious thing that I need to do my best to address in every way I can. All of the numbers, in general, were extremely good, other than this.
But the bottom line on this, which is interesting to me, is that it speaks directly to this reason why I decided to create the website 10 years of creation, because I don't even know if it's 10 years and and I'm not giving up. I am moving forward. I'm pretty happy with the collection of things that I am working on to create.
I'm going to end this good day with a little playing on my grand piano in the living room. Maybe something will come out of that and I can post it, but maybe not.
I want, as I have mentioned, to have this ongoing commentary also reveal some creative milestones, some accomplishments, some little works of art, or larger works of art, that have come out of my efforts.
And it turns out, there are many building blocks and things that have to be put into place, and work must be done every day.
So now it's probably 8:30 at night. I'm so glad I can be with you this evening, on the ninth day of my 10 years of creation.