What's With All the Dr. visits

I just thought with my vacation just days away why am I scheduled for all these dr visits. The stress test resulted in another trip to the dr for a nuclear stress test next monday. I went to the eye dr on wed and was told I have a cataract in my right eye so I have to go back in 6 months to have it rechecked (it was a 2 out of 4) but the dr couldn't figure out why my vision was 20/20. Both in close and far vision. And then next week I have a dental appointment which will be more bad news no doubt. I really hate dental visits. I would be visting my foot dr for her to look at my left foot but she is away on vacation this week. I don't like getting old. Anyhow the Las Vegas trip is all planned. Got the car rental last night (50 % off for prepaying) and got the Luxor for the last 2 nights in Vegas. They had a special on for $42.50 a night. I guess vegas is feeling the pinch in the economy also. So everything is arranged for that trip and all the places to stay are reserved. One week at out time share in Vegas and then 3 days at Zion NP in a cabin, 2 nights at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in a cabin and 2 nights at Bryce Canyon in a Motel room in the park and then 2 nights at the Luxor. During the week at our time share we usually go over to Kingman AZ to have lunch at a little cafe at the airport. ( a real mom and pop operation). Been going there for years. Then we will run down to Laughlin and stay at the Riverside Casino. Been going there for 17 years. Midnight is getting concerned that we are going somewhere. He really doesn't like it when we leave him. Well that's it for now. Still looking for a new car, just found out that Deb's car doesn't make the CARS program for either the 3500 or 4500 dollar credit. That figures.
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Stress Test

Well my doctor could not find anything to yell at me about so he decided to have me take a stress test. I went on wednesday and they couldn't get a good reading so he decided to stop the test. He said my heart was strong at rest but he was afraid he couldn't get a good reading after the treadmill workout. Something about he couldn't get a good window because my ribs a too close together or something like that. So now I have to go to the hospital and get injected with a isotope and have a big machine take pictures. Something like 4 hours. Tonight my blood pressure was 117 over 73 which is about normal. My doctor likes to be careful, so i guess I'll have to do it. That is Aug 3. The yearly eye doctor checkup is Wednesday and the dentist is Aug 5. And the foot doctor is when I get back. Gee I have alot of doctors for someone in good health. I'm getting off Actos so maybe I can lose weight easier. Tomorrow would have been the day we left for Argentina now it is Oct. Well better weather in October. The Las Vegas trip and the West is all done and the San Antonio trip in Sept is all set also. As is the Argentina trip in October. However I still have to fit a trip to Florida in there somehow. I need to retire. Wait I am retired.......OK I need to go back to work so I have some free time. On second thought I'll stay retired. I need to spend sometime with the calendar and make sure it is up to date. Midnight still looks at my suitcase like I'm leaving any second. He gets very upset when we leave on trips. I just remembered that I have a trip to Pittsburg coming up in Sept also. Got a Dell mini for when I don't need a big laptop, works well.
Well back to studying Spanish.
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Here I am at MacGuire AFB

Well I'm doing my thing here at MacGuire AFB in New Jersey. My thing is that I'm on staff for the NorthEast Region Staff College. Got here last Friday and I leave next Saturday. BOQ here is really nice. Building was just open less than 6 months ago. Big room with a HD LCD TV, microwave oven, refrig, nice desk and ceiling fan. Very nice. Just got the internet fixed after a big storm hit the base on Saturday night. AC went out for a day and half the base had no power. But everything is ok now. The place is really like a hotel with a 2 story atrium and a starbucks coffee shop in the lobby with a small restaurant. They deliever a USA Today to my room. Not bad. They gave me a minivan to drive around in also. I have been real busy this week. We eat lunch over at Ft. Dix and dinner we go out around here. We went back to a German restaurant and had another good meal there. We have breakfast at the Golf club because it is real close to the training building which used to be the old dental clinic. It is right next door to the new dental clinic. Well I better get off this and call home and get my uniform ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow is the school picnic and Thursday is the dining out (a formal dinner for military) That is it for now
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Well, at least the deck is painted

Went to the doctor for my every 4 month check-up. He changed some of my drugs, mainly actos because it put wweight on me no matter what I did. and took me off Lipitor to another drug that works better or the HDL and LDL. But he said I was in great health and then scheduled me for a stress test. He said he needed something to yell at me about because everything else was normal. A1C was at 6.8 and my PSA was back to being normal at 1.3. Got back from the doctor at 9 am only to find spanish painters on the back deck to paint. I thought I would have some more time before they came, but they were there and so I had to move things inside rather quickly. In particular my daughters rocking chairs. I listened to their spanish for a while, picked up a few words and decided to get back to cleaning. Another two bags went out. Midnight heard all the noise and went to his secret hiding place for most of the day. They were done in about 3 hours. Midnight came out afterwards to tell me all about it. He really likes to be brushed, he comes out and sits there looking at you and his brush until I get the idea he wants me to brush him. I looked it up on a cat site which said cats tend to like it in the summer time to get rid of excess hair. I guess that's what happen to my hair, I brushed it too much. And here I thought my hair loss was from having two daughters.
Ciao for now