Tag Archives: Knee

1/21/2021 – Thursday – sports doctor visit and tennis blunder

HAL – write note to board about personnel policies.

Received cartoon from Toni Koweek.
Appointment with Dr Pregont about my knees, especially my left knee. He has questions about where the pain was and then he felt around and pressed on the knee in various directions. At his direction I flexed my knee various directions. Then he looked over at the x-rays and said well this confirms what the x-rays told me. You have arthritis in both knees.

I asked him what I need to do to preserve my knees as long as possible. He said that I should go on doing what I I have been doing. Playing tennis,walking, keeping active. He spoke of Cortizone shots in the future if needed. Gave me referral to PT.


Tennis lesson.

Got hit in the eye during volleying drill. Held racquet up on edge in front of my face. Ball smacked my glasses bending the frame.  Drew a little blood.

Zoom with Bill and Nancy. She spoke briefly but in ten minutes she was slumped back.

 

1/18/2021 – Monday – lots of chatter

more work on this very slow framing job….

Knees and hips troubling.

Short walk to post office only to find it closed for MLK day.

Work on essay about Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk about origins of moral values and liberals and conservatives. Response to Ellen Feldman.

Arrange HAL Exec Comm mtg.

Talk with Andrea Geyer about help organizing her finances and digital life.

Dave Drake and son Danny came by. Sat for an hour chatting.

Zoom with Linda Larson.

Ruth Tamaroff and Michael O’Hara came got drinks at 5:30. Left just after 7pm. Michael told a very long story about his travels to Willits CA in 1971.

1/16/2021 – Saturday – library board meeting, knee problems

HAL BOT mtg.

Talked with Emily about family health insurance for new hire. Then spoke with Caitie Hilverman about board development work and board meeting.

Board meeting was active and engaged. Caitie, Charlie, Annamaria, and others showed real energy.

Tennis with Ted. Knee continues to be troublesome. Good hour.

Made butternut squash soup.

Chat with Anne, Ted, Ellen Feldman. Ted is in Redhook.

1/29/2020 – web project, work, tennis

Wednesday 

Spent too much time working with a plugin to add tables of contents to web pages here and on AmericanDelusions. Decided in the end to drop it here because of a conflict with Timeline. Also talked with Karen about my spreadsheet of travel events. She added some I had forgotten back in the early ‘70s.

FaceTime with kids in Leiden
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Tentative travel list without Karen’s edits:

June 1982 Karen, Jonathan & Mark take Green Tortoise bus from Harvard Sq. to Los Angeles
September 1983 Mark and Karen cross Canada by train
November 1984 Karen and kids go to Virgin Islands
March 1986 Puerto Rico
April 1986 Mark in Milan (work), Paris w Harvey Meyerson
May 1986 Karen to Dueseldorf (work) then Rome and Paris
March 1987 M & K in Jamaica
August 1987 Mark to Taiwan (work) then Melbourne
February 1988 M & K Big Bend National Park
June 1988 Family in Southest
December 1989 Karen in India
June 1990 M&K Washington DC, Virginia and West Virginia
March 1991 K&M Mexico
September 1991 Karen hikes White Mountains
June 1992 K&M travel with Ed and Meredith to Glacier National park
October 1992 Karen and Andrea trip to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival
March 1995 K&M go to Paris
April 1996 K&M got to Florida, east, west Everglades
October 1998 Karen and Mark travel to blues festival and elsewhere. Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis
December 1999 Karen goes to Vietnam
April 2000 Karen Jackson Mississippi wi Linda Larson
June 2002 Karen Mississippi w Linda Larson
May 2005 Singapore
May 2005 Korea wedding
June 2005 Jon and Nan wedding Cambridge
April 2008 K&M Savannah and Charleston
February 2009 K&M Florida, cousins’ dinner
December 2009 K&M Hong Kong & Vietnam
February 2010 K&M Florida, cousin’s dinner
February 2011 South-Alabama-Texas-New Mexico-Oklahoma-return
December 2011 HK – Bali
December 2012 Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Penang
February 2013 California and Arizona
December 2014 Australia with Jon, nan, kids, visit Torry and Jane
August 2015 Northern CA and Sapoznick wedding
December 2015 West Coast w AJL & kids
October 2016 Road Trip – Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago
February 2017 Florida road trip by car, cousins’ dinner
March 2017 Leiden, Utrecht, Maastricht, Barcelona, et al
August 2017 Phillip Johnson House
August 2017 Art Exhibit Rogers
October 2017 Leiden, Cologne Freiburg, Brussels, Antwerp, et al
February 2018 Road trip – Florida, New Orleans, Gulf Coast, cousins’ dinner
May 2018 Netherlands-Lisbon visit with Torrey and Jane
June 2018 Bus Trip – NYC – Atlantic City – Cape May – Philadelphia – NYC
October 2018 Netherlands – Sicily
February 2019 Superbowl Cambridge, Florida Cousins
April 2019 Philadelphia and Washington DC
December 2019 Leiden, Vienna, Morocco

Met with Erin Marshall and Ryder Cooley at UTMH. Lengthy discussion of document standards and user roles and permissions. Have asked Troy Web for a roles and permissions matrix. They should be able to produce this easily. 

Seth and I talked with SOMML. After what seems to be more than a year of preparatory work they have actually started to sign up patients at Albany Med. Also spoke with David about upcoming meeting with CEO candidate Leon Greene next week.

Rare completely clear sky behind the Catskill Mountains on the way to tennis about 5:30pm.

Doubles at Total Tennis. Played quite well excepting serve which featured way too many double faults. Left knee bothered me towards the end of the session.