February 11

8:35 AM

One in five. 6.3% vs 20%.

I have been sent by the doctor i saw yesterday at Meridian Park across the street to actually do a PAD (peripheral artery disease) test. The ABI test to be more precise.

I googled and saw the test implies measuring arterial blood pressure in an arm and in a leg in about the same time and then dividing systolic pressure in ankle vs arm. Since you cannot hear with a stethoscope the blood pulsating in your leg (like you can in the arm) the artery being smaller and deeper you have to use a small portable vascular doppler device that translates blood flow into sound.

But then i remembered years ago i played with my automated BP monitor and measured my BP at ankles just to see if i cam read anything and i could. I don't remember any difference between the arm readings and the ankle readings back then and i thought that was an alternate way to measure BP.

And then i had this idea and googled again and mr. google told me that i can do the ABI test with a regular automated BP monitor (though they also have specialized machines that probably include several monitors to measure it simultaneously in all locations),

Which i performed and the readings came in the middle of normal range (though not the same as 20 years ago), with about 5% consistent difference between left and right leg, doing the test repeatedly, (left foot being bluer in color than right). 

February 10

7:45 AM Calcularea și recalcularea pensiilor e o problemă pur administrativă.

Mai mult decât atât. Nici o curte din România nu se poate implica în calcularea și/sau recalcularea pensiilor magistraților din cauza legii conflictului de interese.

February 9

8:08 AM Crin Antonescu

8:50 Was wondering if dark roasted coffee contains at least some, not negligible amounts of charcoal hence the detox effects by absorbing "bad bacteria" at stomach and intestine level.

9:18 Treat bacterial infections on skin? I didn't know that!

4:05 PM I never thought i will hear or remember (of) this song ever. However the insane organizers of the Olympics opening ceremony thought it would be worth it (to make us hear it again).

Only thing that dimmed it during the live performance was i could not understand the words. It sounded Latin (American) with a bit of jazz, even rock in it, and i thought i heard some English words. I postponed figuring the mystery and remembered today. It took me a while to search for it cause i could not catch any phrase to google it. Finally searched for the videos with dances during ceremony and found it.

Extraordinary song (alt link), extraordinarily sexy dance. Sabrina Impacciatore embodying the (still) submissiveness of Italian women. Yes, they played it on the radio in Romania a lot during the time. Not that would had made any difference to us Romanians who did  not understand neither English nor Italian and did not have access to printed lyrics like on the back of the covers. (I started to learn English in HS, one hour a week, 1975-1978).

Could be one of the many reasons deriving from this celebration that Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga and others could not possibly shine during the half time show yesterday that happened too soon after. Italians will always be Italians.

And not only. There are enough Americans who for one reason or another have to search for some songs' lyrics to fully understand them.

11:11 Feb 10 For some reason (style) i thought this song was much older, but it's a 2003.

February 7

3:25 PM Ordered this morning an A1C monitor on Amazon. Got it at my door in a few hours. However it is not easy to use without seeing someone. Instructions too fine printed. Even after i saw the video i spent one more set of pouches.

But eventually figured it out and the last reading i got was 7.8. I am far from 10 point something in my chart at Legacy. And  yes, i believe they use the same type of monitor, by the shape and size of blood collector.

The reason i bought this in a hurry was i read online that if you have A1C over 8 you cannot have surgery because your wound won't heal. So if my leg got gangrene, they could not amputate it that is. Or they could try and i would die in horrible pains or something like that. Could have went to Walmart, they do this test on site for 27 bucks if i'm noy mistaken but for that i would expose myself again to cold which i'm trying to avoid.

I suffered a heavy set back a couple of days ago. I drank one bier but that was only the beginning. Smoke coming from outside made me irresponsible. I wet vacuumed the couch and a carpet in my bare feet, with only some plastic bags over and open window. Within 24 hours both feet started to turn blue, like they some times were in the past and my wound started to hurt.

However after 24 hours laying in a thermal pouch, i slowly started to get better like right now i am almost where i was before this whole episode.

Same kind of smoke was present here all day.

February 6th

11:25 PM A solar swastika at the center of the Opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Cortina, Milan, home of the Northern League. Tank you beautiful Melani.