Reading Directions

Timing is everything “they say”; who are they anyway?

Thank goodness this past Saturday was not JFK day for if it had been my chances of completing the course would have been slim indeed. The week had gone fairly well, I enjoyed my relaxed running schedule with no hint of trouble ahead.

Saturday morning I woke up feeling a bit off my game but assumed I would feel better as the day wore on. This was not to be as my GI track rumbled and grumbled with no resulting relief. A trip to Mom and Dads in the afternoon left me feeling more and more uncomfortable to a point that I needed to leave early in the evening. Back at home I went to bed knowing that I probably would not sleep the evening.

It started at 2 AM when I woke with pressure the likes I had not felt before; at 5:30 AM after a dozen or more trips to the bathroom I felt there certain nothing could be left. At 8:00 AM I joined my trail group for a relaxed five mile jaunt, having a good run without issue. Later in the day rumbling and grumbling returned, as did the need to spend another couple of hours in my comfort station. As I said, had I been running JFK it would have been very difficult and potentially very embarrassing to try to run through the problems I was experiencing. I will review my diet to try to determine what is going on.

Many guys, including me have some sort of aversion to reading instructions. This morning I went back and read the instructions on the can of Metamucil. ONE ROUNDED TEASPOON IN EIGHT OUNCES OF WATER UP TO THREE TIMES PER DAY. Hummm.......... Guess two or three heaping tablespoons a couple times a day might be too much? No wonder my mix seemed thick as I chugged it down.

Yikes !

On other notes; Mom received an IPAD Saturday loaded with over five hundred photographs and MP3 music. This was the idea of my dear friend Joe who asked me three weeks or so ago if I thought Mom would like one. As mom is not really a “Computer Person” I initially thought it would receive little use but as Joe explained how I could load photographs, music and video I began to see the light. For those of you who have not seen the latest IPAD let me just say the display is stunning and the sound simply amazing. Mom had tears in her eyes as we paged through photographs and listened recordings made by her grand-kids. I will be adding more photographs and music with each visit.

Among the recordings were two I had never heard before, there were Irish songs Kevin and a friend had recorded while Kevin was at UMBC. The duo had intentions on singing at Irish Bars to earn some cash. Too bad that never came together because the quality of their work was as professional as any I have heard.

Mike