9:59 PM

Sickness

The past week has been interesting

Most of last week I felt like crap all week. Thursday I finally left work early and bought a thermometer. That night I had a 103.4 fever and ran myself to the emergency room. Apparantly you're NOT supposed to sweat out a fever under the blankets. They did chest x-rays, blood work, urine work, etc. and gave me fluids. Doctors were closed for Good Friday and I spiked again Friday night, but it came down fast.

The fever went away on Saturday and I spent Saturday and Sunday working up myself into sickness thinking everything under the sun was wrong with me. Sunday night I fooled myself into thinking I was having a heart attack (my arm hurt and I thouht my heart was beating fast). EMS came out and said it was more like an anxiety attack.

Next day at the doctor, I thought I was having breathing problems, possibly bronchitis. He said the chest x-rays showed nothing, stethescope showed nothing and that the only thing I had from the blood work was a slightly high glucose level. Everything else was just my nerves getting to me and going stir crazy.

The most important thing to come out of the doctor's office was that I weight 335! Holy shit! My scale stops at 300 and I thought when it was swinging around to 10 (above 300), that was 310. Also, he wrote down the words I had never seen before on my records "morbidly obese". He gave me a perscription to Weight Watchers (paperwork for some medical insurance programs that cover that). I know my dad peaked out around 350-375 and I don't want to "beat" him (even though I still wouldn't be as wide b/c I'm taller).

I have taken his perscription. Today was day 1. I managed to get a smoothie and eat at Picadilly (grilled fish) and Chimes (grilled chicken platter) on the points system. I've also taken the advice of making time to walk by getting up early to walk the neighborhood for half an hour, though it was too nasty this morning.

Its time I learn from my dad's mistakes. He stayed overweight an entire lifetime and he didn't make it to 65. His quality of life after age 50 wasn't that great either. I'm not expecting to become a toothpick, but I can do better than where I am now. I think Weight Watchers can help me get there. So I will be counting points for a while... probably a long while, but its suprisingly free in food selection. Less pizza and fried foods, more veggies and grilled foods. Also, I can still have a drink or two... light beers are only 2 pts for a 12 oz. can. I get sweets too, 2 scoops of low fat ice cream/yogurt is also only 2 pts. Not a bad evening snack.

I will try to keep updates on my "weigh in" weights as I see fit. My official weigh in last night was 333.8, down from 335 at the doctors, likely difference is the scale and maybe 2 mornings of walking. They automatically set your first goal at 10% of body weigh, so I'll be at my first goal when I get down to 300. No time table on that, but I hope it will be sooner rather than later.

Another decision is that the house purchase is off for now. These 4 days of being sick alone in the apartment scared me. Living alone, I was here driving myself insane. I need friends nearby. I've also decided that a house is a lot for one person to take care of, physically and financially. What I could afford and what I want weren't aligning well at this point.

I'm trying to move to Regency Club Apartments, the complex Chris and Erin live in. Its just across Sherwood Forest from my office, has the fireplace I've wanted, is closer to lots of friends and has a fitness center that will hopefully help me stay on the exercise I need. It will be a good place for me to live. I will miss being a hop, skip and jump from my Alma Mater, but its only a 10-15 minute drive on the Interstate.

One last thing....

Ohhhhh, oh oh, ohhhhhh, oh oh... WRES-TLE-MAN-IA... Fightin' to survive

Thats the old lyrics to the Wrestlemania (now Linda McMahon) theme song. Predictions:

World Championship
Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Dave Batista
Logic says Batista leaves HHH a bloody pulp in the middle of the ring. Unfortunately, logic isn't married to the owner's daughter. HHH is saved when Randy K. Orton returns to Evolution.

WWE Championship
John Bradshaw Layfield vs. John Cena
This is a world title match? You're kidding. Smackdown sucks. Cena wins I guess.

6-way Ladder Match
Chris Jericho vs. Chris Beniot vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Christian vs. Edge vs. Kane
There's a 50% chance that Chris will win. My pick is Chris Jericho.

Kurt Angle vs. Shawn Michaels
I pick Kurt Angle to win this so he can feud with John Cena for the Smackdown World Title and so HBK can reunite with Marty Jannety and bring back the Raw tag division.

Randy Orton vs. The Undertaker
Undertaker somehow manages to job at Wrestlemania. Might take half the roster to do it, like at the Royal Rumble when they stuffed him in a casket.

WWE Women's Championship
Christy Hemme vs. Trish Stratus
Lita turns on Christy and we get Trish and Lita as the hot uber bitches running the women on Raw. Christy goes back to bouncing around and being generally annoying.

Big Show vs. Akebono
Sumo match? Not sure what this is supposed to be and I'm not sure the WWE does either. My pick is Big Show since he's actually a WWE employee.

Smackdown Tag Champions Explode
Rey Misterio vs. Eddie Guerrero
Scrap Big Show vs. Akebono and the Women's match and give these two 45 minutes. This will probably be the match of the night if given enough time. Rey Rey wins, eventually leading to the return of Rudo Dick Eddie.

Really sad to see no tag matches at Wrestlemania. They need to get the tag divisions up and running again and not just with matched up singles guys.