eating & dreaming & saving lives

One of the things that I enjoy about my current drug regime is that it includes one pill which increases my appetite. Enjoy? Yes... it gives me an excuse to eat... to eat a lot :-)

But now the excuse is over.

Well, I'm still taking the pill. But it's time to eat more reasonably. Pants which were loose are now a tight fit. My stomach -- which has always stuck out -- is sticking out even further. My weight went over 80kg. For the first time, ever.

So yesterday I ate enough. Then stopped eating. Avoided the late night grazing -- over-grazing -- which I have enjoyed. Went to bed feeling replete but not stuffed.

Woke up from a dream of food... so cold that I was almost shivering. Both signs that I have become hungry again during the night! Not to worry, I know how to deal with both of these.

One, I may be dreaming of food but I'm not particularly hungry. Just... not stuffed full. Easy to ignore, I ignore it. And two, I have run out of fuel -- food -- to burn, to keep myself warm. So I move closer to Deb. Feel the warmth. Feel the heat :-) Go back to sleep.

In the morning I have slipped just below 80kg. We're talking small shifts, here! Below 80 again is good, it's ... not going up. It's good as long as I ignore my long-term target -- for five years or more -- of weighing under 75kg :-)

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You may know the old image of senior specialist surgeons as thinking that they are gods? That they have a huge sense of their own self-importance because, after all, they *save lives*.

No, no, none of "my medical team" act like that. It's just that dealing with so many medical specialists has made me think of this.

Surgeons say -- at least in jokes: I save lives therefore I am important. You do not save lives therefore I am far more important than you.

I started wondering about that viewpoint...

A surgeon is important because a surgeon saves lives. Why is that important? Because lives are important. Whose lives are important? The patients' lives are important. The surgeon is important  *only because* they save the lives of *patients*. Which means that *the patient* is the really important person... Otherwise, why is saving that life important?!

Take that one step further:

A whole team of specialists is working to save *my* life. In fact, they are working extremely hard simply to *extend* my life. The entire purpose of all the skilled work of this team of specialists is... to extend *my* life.

Which makes *me* the most important person in this entire exercise.

QED

Or possibly an axiom :-)

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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