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Post by macdiver on Feb 23, 2020 20:02:26 GMT
Having had the pleasure of enjoying the cooking of Mac and his wife, I can attest that they know their way around a kitchen. Thank you. Last night went well. Both the wine and food were enjoyed. Everyone left around 9:30 and we did the first load of dishes. After that I played on the computer until midnight as that was my first chance to relax. I woke up this morning and finished the dishes. After that we had change the room over. Today my wife is hosting her ladies golf league winter social. Once they started arriving at 2 I headed out for my bike ride. My goal was 20 miles but I chose a route with a few bail out options. My legs were getting tired so I took the second bail out and did a little over 12 miles. I didn't want to push it since my leg is feeling better. Per Garmin, 12.22 miles in 52:28 for an average speed of 14.0 mph which isnt bad for a mountain bike. I have to catch a 6 am flight tomorrow so I can be at my client by 10 am. This means I will be leaving my house at 3:45. Hopefully this won't become the routine.
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Post by macdiver on Feb 27, 2020 11:45:15 GMT
On Monday, my Achilles was a little more sore due to the bike ride, so I need to take a little more time off. I continued doing my exercises but could only get 1 round per day with my travels. I will go back to twice a day today. I also stopped the ibupropen since I could not take it during the day at my client.
Yesterday while at my client I hit my head on a pipe support while looking at some stuff. In a Pharmaceutical plant there are strict rules about reporting bleeding and staying where you are so they can clean up and sterilize as needed. Since I was in an hard to access area we left the catwalk and went to the stairwell to wait for the emergency responders. By the time we got there (less than a minute) my face and head was covered in blood. I grabbed a napkin from my bag and begin applying pressure to stop the bleeding. When the emergency team came, they cleaned me up some and took me to the site medical center to see the nurse. At the building I was in, they walked me out to the golf cart with one on each side and one behind me. When we arrived at the building with the medical center, the golf cart guy looked at me and said you can walk right? The walk was twice or more further. I found the difference funny. I thought I would need stitches, but I didn't. It is a 6 cm (over 2 inches) long superficial cut. Head wounds bleed a lot.
After lunch we wrapped up what we could in a conference room since I was not allowed to go back into the work area yesterday. We were able to get to the airport and catch the 5:00 flight which got me home by 7. I was originally on the 8:30 flight so big difference.
As mentioned, I am not going to run yet, but may try a mile or two this weekend.
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Post by shamie on Feb 27, 2020 14:04:57 GMT
I saw you wrote in PhillyDude's thread that your official retirement age is 68 1/2. Seems like an unusual number. Is that from your job? When anyone asks me when I am retiring (anyone out of my place of employment), I tell them sometime between after lunch and age 70 & 1/2. Sorry to hear about your bloody incident. Why were you not wearing a hard hat?
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Post by seltzer on Feb 27, 2020 15:57:44 GMT
Sorry to read about your injury; I hope your recovery is fast and complete.
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Post by macdiver on Feb 27, 2020 16:09:03 GMT
I saw you wrote in PhillyDude's thread that your official retirement age is 68 1/2. Seems like an unusual number. Is that from your job? When anyone asks me when I am retiring (anyone out of my place of employment), I tell them sometime between after lunch and age 70 & 1/2. Sorry to hear about your bloody incident. Why were you not wearing a hard hat? Thanks about the head. It really is just a minor but long scratch. I just looked it up and I was mistaken. Based on my birth year full social security would be available at age 67. For some reason I thought it was age 68 1/2. My job doesn't have a pension only a 401K which I could start withdrawing from at age 59 1/2.
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Post by macdiver on Feb 28, 2020 14:06:22 GMT
I have been continuing with my rehab exercises and the achilles is feeling pretty good.
I went to a yoga class last night. This class focused on core work which is what I needed. I don't know if the instructor always focuses on core or if it was just what she focused on last night.
This week my diet has not been keto. My client's cafeteria does not have a lot of keto options. I need to just have a salad for lunch when I am there. The protein choices as the salad bar seem to be hard boiled egg and cheese. They need to add dried up, overcooked chicken breasts like most of my other clients. While not tasty, it does make it easier to get adequate protein. Since my lunches this week included carbs, I also had carbs at dinner.
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Post by phillydude on Feb 28, 2020 16:37:39 GMT
Since my lunches this week included carbs, I also had carbs at dinner. Good man!
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Post by macdiver on Feb 29, 2020 14:47:05 GMT
The other day Shamie mentioned the Corona virus and there was a bigger discussion in Merk's journal regarding it. I wanted to pass on my thoughts as well as my risk for exposure.
In general, the new strain of the corona virus is not proving to be any more deadly than the various strains of the influenza virus. In China the fatality rate is around 3%. There is some concerns that China is not reporting all cases and all deaths so that number may not be a true picture. Outside of China, the fatality rate is about 1.5%. Either the virus is weakening as it spreads or treatment is either starting sooner or is more effective in other countries. Most likely a combination of all 3. The deaths are mostly in the elderly in which the infection progresses into pneumonia. It is the pneumonia that is deadly. As a healthy, middle age person with a strong immune system, if infected my body should fight it well and it should not move into pneumonia. Which is good. For people like my wife and Shamie who are on immune suppressants their risk of infection and risk of progression is much higher.
The real risk comes down to exposure. This is where I have some concerns. I have what would be classified as potential primary exposure, potential secondary exposure, and potential community exposure. So far there is limited proof that this virus is spreading by community exposure such as sitting in an airline seat after someone who was carrying the virus. My exposures and real risks are
1. I mentioned my wine dinner we hosted last week. One of the attendees is Chinese. Before coming they did check to make sure we were ok with him being there. He is from Wu Han China and was there in December visiting his parents and family. So I have had direct physical contact (hand shakes, accidental bumping whatever) with someone who was at ground zero when the infection started. He most likely was not exposed as certainly he would have been symptomatic before coming to my house. Primary Contact - Risk level medium.
2. The equipment for my North Carolina project is being made in Italy in the region where most of the cases are. My clients were there the 3rd week of January. Again, I have had direct physical contact with people who were in a region with an outbreak. Most likely, they were there before the virus reached that part of Italy. Primary Contact - Risk level low.
3. The same vendor is making equipment for my California client. I am not on the project but other people from my office are. They met with the Italians in California the 1st week of February. This is considered secondary contact as it is coworkers who had the direct contact with people from the region. Again, most likely it was before the virus reached Italy. Secondary Contact - Risk low
4. The same coworkers were in California this past week meeting with a different Italian vendor from the same region. My automation engineer was there M - W and he was in my office yesterday for well over an hour. These guys left Italy the same weekend that over 200 cases were reported in their region. I don't know if they have been exposed or not. I do know the other vendor told us that so far no one in their facility has gotten sick. They also said there are more cases of flu and more deaths from flu in Italy this year than Corona virus so they feel it is an unnecessary panic. I will be meeting with the other engineers Monday to compare notes between the projects. Secondary Contact - Risk probably low.
5. I fly a lot and spend a lot of time in airports. This puts me at risk of community exposure. The risk is very low.
I usually don't worry about these things but as I realized I have real risks of exposure, I looked into what the consequences of exposure would mean. As of now, the new strain of Corona virus doesn't appear to any worse than the current strain of flu in America or Europe. It also doesn't seem to be spreading by community exposure outside of China. That probably has to do with good quarantine protocols trying to contain the spread of the new virus.
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Post by phillydude on Feb 29, 2020 16:16:01 GMT
As I mentioned in Merk's journal, my bosses cancelled their trip to Italy. From an e-mail they received from their daughter, who lives there (via romemessages@state.gov):
Reconsider travel to Italy due to a recent outbreak of COVID-19.
There is an ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 caused by a novel (new) coronavirus in Italy. Many cases of COVID-19 have been associated with travel to or from mainland China or close contact with a travel-related case, but sustained community spread has been reported in Italy. Sustained community spread means that people have been infected with the virus, but how or where they became infected is not known, and the spread is ongoing. The CDC has issued a Level 3 Warning for Italy. At this time, CDC recommends avoiding non-essential travel to Italy.
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Post by macdiver on Feb 29, 2020 16:35:08 GMT
Yes, I don't think I would travel to Italy, China, or South Korea currently but don't think it will become a wide spread, deadly pandemic. I think it will probably spread but it isn't as deadly as most people fear.
Today's exercise was my rehab exercises followed by the prep drill and hip work. We will be taking the dog for a long walk this afternoon. If everything feels good during and after, I will try running tomorrow.
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Post by seltzer on Feb 29, 2020 21:18:11 GMT
Mac, thanks for your PSA regarding the virus.
Hope the run tomorrow goes well.
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Post by macdiver on Mar 1, 2020 6:38:02 GMT
Mac, thanks for your PSA regarding the virus. Hope the run tomorrow goes well. Thanks. So in a it's a small world category and a macdiver long story ...... One of my good friends here in Rehoboth has a son who is an infectious disease expert doctor. They are sponsers of a clinic in Sierra Leone so he is considered one of 3 of the top Ebola doctors in the world. Currently he is finishing a PhD which is focused on modeling the spread of viruses. Some of what I posted above is based on a conversation with him; well before this outbreak of Corona virus. He explained primary, secondary, and community spreading. Community is a little more involved than I insinuated previously but that isn't important tonight. Tonight was my Rehoboth wine group and after the tasting a few friends returned to my condo for "the after party". During our conversation my friend mentioned a previous girlfriend of her son when he was in med school. As the story ended, I asked if her name was Danielle. Yes, she says skeptically. I say that she was my doctor until she moved to Texas 3 years ago. My friend can't wait to tell her son. I only wish she was still my doctor so I could ask her "do you know John Doe?".
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Post by seltzer on Mar 1, 2020 13:47:59 GMT
Once again, I've learned by reading your journal. :-)
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Post by M@ on Mar 1, 2020 15:31:42 GMT
I usually don't worry about these things but as I realized I have real risks of exposure, I looked into what the consequences of exposure would mean. I just watched this data visualization on YouTube yesterday. The overall message is that SARS/Ebola/Swine Flu/Flu/Car Wrecks/Stroke/Cancer etc. are more dangerous than the current Coronavirus outbreak but the joke's on them: I'm scared of all those other things, too. EDIT: Two star member, bitches!
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Post by macdiver on Mar 1, 2020 19:19:23 GMT
I usually don't worry about these things but as I realized I have real risks of exposure, I looked into what the consequences of exposure would mean. I just watched this data visualization on YouTube yesterday. The overall message is that SARS/Ebola/Swine Flu/Flu/Car Wrecks/Stroke/Cancer etc. are more dangerous than the current Coronavirus outbreak but the joke's on them: I'm scared of all those other things, too. EDIT: Two star member, bitches! Just to scare you more 😈, life is fatal. 🤣. While the dog walk never happened yesterday, I still went for a run today. I parked near dead center of the boardwalk so that I would not be further than a 1/2 mile from the car. I started with a 1/2 mile walk to one end as my warm-up then started my run. I figured I would run 2 miles but would quit if the Achilles started bothering me. I made it the 2 miles without any issue then walked back to my starting point for 3 total miles. My plan is to run 3 miles on Tuesday and Thursday this week. I will continue doing my rehab exercises too. PS, I learned the smilies built into my pixel keyboard work on this forum.
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