Saturday May 2nd 2026

Good morning-ish.

I can't believe Stars can't log in like the rest of us. Wonder how many other lost members are out there.

Joe hope you have a good day and your mood is lifted. You might be like me, a little attuned to your moods more than average.

I think with my drinking problem and crippling depression I experienced in the 80's has always made me attuned to my mood because I never want to go there again. I'm thankful to have gotten help over time but still have those tendencies towards a negative and depressed mood. I can recognize it and move through it.

Anyway, I can't believe it's May already. Will do some first of the month stuff like give Waffles her monthly flea/tick/heartworm pill, change the air filters, pay off the credit cards to zero (mostly Amazon purchases), and some other piddly stuff.

I slept in to a late-for-me 9:30 but I stayed up late. Of course Waffles got fed at 6AM. I'm trying to see if she'll use the new doggie door. Part of my reno was two new doors back there to replace old and water damaged cheap doors. One has a new doggie door and I hope she figures it out. I put her outside and she's sunning herself. I'm waiting to see if she comes back on her own. Update. Got up to get some water and noticed her inside, so success there. Hopefully she can figure out how to use it to get out.

Otherwise not much going on today. I'll start a list for my trip home. I mostly have to remember Monday is Vitamin D day and to pack my microcolitis medication. I'm on day 59 of a six month treatment. It's kicked in some but feel like I'm in between being well and not. But not near as sick as before treatment started and I'm thankful for that. Hopefully by the end I'll be 100% well.

Have a great day!

How exciting to have the renovation complete.

Twin B and I agreed to split the payments on the Parent Plus loan I had for him to live in the dorms. We are both comfortable with that arrangement.

Hubs cleared up the living room yesterday after Twin B finally got moved to the bedroom and it is SO NICE to have the space and the sunlight.

There are so far no patients on the floor so I'm getting some other things done. We have to report annually on the "appropriate follow-up interval after normal colonoscopy" measure. We did 191 colonoscopies last year, if anyone wanted to know. I've had the pleasure of going through them and determining whether they were normal and if they were whether they had the appropriate follow-up interval. I'm sure I could do sampling rather than all 191 of them. But this wasn't too bad.

I made an appointment for Sam the ginger cat because I want to be sure there are no dental issues behind his disdain for dry food. (budget cutting includes cat food!)

Ado, I have to wonder if AI will being doing that sort of thing soon. I know there is AI that actually somehow helps the doc do the scope and interpret and find issues within the colon. There are concerns that GI docs will lose their skills if AI is doing the visual looking at the colon for them.

I remember being impressed with my GI docs note and saying his notes reflected that he actually listened to me. I realize now it was AI that wrote the note from listening to me but I hope the doc did indeed listen.

Times are changing.

I agree, Tweety. Kind of glad that I'm at nearer the end of my working life as all these changes occur. Already things are being collected more electronically, with just a few measures still requiring human intervention for reporting.

One concern I did note was a patient that had 3 scopes -- prep was poor on the first 2 attempts but the chart said a polyp was seen. The third time, everything was clear. And there were no polyps. What do I know?

As an old programmer, I remember very clearly being told in my computer science classes that computers are stupid. They only know what they are programmed to "know."

Looks like I'm getting an admit. COPD.