What I'm Reading This Week #30

Happy last Friday of July to you.  Did the week treat you well or drop kick you on the daily?  I hope it wasn't the latter!  It was decent around these parts.  I FINALLY got that damn LE pump I never really wanted out of the house but not with any help from the doctor, that's for sure.  I was supposed to get the label last Thursday, never did and followed up Monday.  They said they would send over an AMA (against medical advice) waiver and then they could get it.  I said "is she seriously refusing to sign the discontinue use order!??!"  The woman said she didn't know but it would be the fastest way to get the box out of the house so I did it.  The Mr was ready 3 different times to cancel his final follow up appointment with her since he was going to be going to the other place she referred him to the next day but he figured better to have two sets of eyes on his veins even if one set of them we wanted to poke out from frustration.  You can imagine having her jam a catheter into my vein and burn me from the inside wasn't high on the list given how pissed I was at her.  Of course she never said a word about the pump stuff but I guess getting into a throwdown before a procedure isn't the frame of mind you want someone in.  I got a little woozy since I had to be on my stomach for it and my body had been reacting like Lloyd dosed me with Turbo Lax all week.  So it was going to be a literal crap shoot as to how I left the office which thankfully was as daisy fresh as I went in.  I just have to tell myself all I need to do is get the sclero done, which I start the first part in September on the left leg and then should be working on the right in late October and then be done with that whack azz beeotch.  So I'm on a bit of restriction again strength/cardio wise for another week-ish.  I did see that her new after procedure directions are now vastly different than 2 months ago.  I suspect her failure rate was higher than it should've been based on my own research and now she's doing overkill.  If you think I'm wearing a compression sock for a month for the bebe saphenous when my big ones closed just fine with wearing them intermittent the first week basically just for workouts after being told "only wear them for comfort", you're nuts!

Now let's dip into:

5 swaps for butter that can improve cholesterol, lower heart disease risks  (Good info to know if you use butter!)

‘Before the age of 40, I never lifted weights—now I do it five days a week’  (Hopefully I can work up to that someday!)

A healthy microbiome can help us be more resilient to modern-day stresses  (Interesting stuff.)

The “Boundary Method" of Organizing Is Perfect for Anyone Overwhelmed by Clutter  (Definitely need to give this a try)

How to Break Your 'Loops' and Form Better Habits  (Sounds good to me)

Tending to the Land—and My Grief—on a Taro Farm in Hawai'i  (What a beautiful story)

35 Gaslighting Phrases That Experts Say Are Unfairly Belittling Your Emotions  (In case you have any flaming a-holes in your life you need to confirm.)

60 Photos That Show Famous And Iconic Pop Culture Moments From A Sliiiiiightly Different Angle  (Really cool!)

I Was A Creative Force Behind One Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of The '90s. Then I Watched Them Erase Me From Their Story  (Wow, this was a really interesting story especially since I had the album back in the day.)

The Reasons People Love ‘Twister’ Have Very Little to Do With the Movie Itself  (If you know, you know!  (And clearly the person who wrote this still doesn't for some reason.).  This is one of our favorite and most quotable movies we watch annually.  My grandma said "that movie was stupid, it was just about a tornado."  I love you grandma but not the takeaway.)

I was able to get some house stuff furthered down the line before the ablation Wednesday which was good.  I'll have to see if I'm up to working on anything else this weekend or not.  I suppose I could work on the upstairs half wall that has been in limbo for over a year.  Should be simple enough.  Famous last words!

What's going on for you this weekend?

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