Silly Thoughts

I shared with Trainer yesterday that I’d had a silly thought that morning, while watching Alien vs Predator.

I was watching that movie so early in the morning, not only because it’s a favorite of mine from the Predator Series, but because I was avoiding the news on Good Morning America. There’s been too much mention of No. 45 ─ what he’s supposedly doing about Covid, and I really don’t want to hear his robotic voice reading OBVIOUSLY from a prompter, can’t stand seeing his vacuous face on television.

At any rate, though I’ve seen that movie literally dozens of times, it suddenly occurred to me how crappy it was that the aliens employed invisibility.

It was supposed to be combat with humans to prove alien superiority, but it’s not combat if they can see YOU but you can’t see THEM.

Trainer didn’t think that was such a silly thought because, when he was watching Ninja Turtles with his sons, he had the thought that all four of the turtles beating up on one foe wasn’t fair. “Why can it be one on one. Why do all four have to gang up?”, he’d thought.

ROFLMAO. But this is why we get along so well. Though a 40+ year age difference, he gets me/I get him.

Returning to the complex from the Pain Cave that day, I ran into the resident with mask and surgical gloves out walking her dog.

All well fine and good for her to protect herself thusly, thought I, but what about the dog ... Can dogs not be infected?

One would think that a silly thought as well, but evidently not.

So now you know.

Today was up and at it early in order to keep an 8:45 a.m. appointment at the medical center with the gastro specialist.

Yep, after chickening out last year, I finally allowed the doctor to schedule me with the specialist ... just to talk … don't EVEN think about torturing me with horrible testing methods.

It was a good talk. Found out I’m better off than most with a leaky gut, probably because, as the specialist said, I’ve done a good job of diagnosing myself ─ identifying what I can and cannot eat which, it turns out those brussel sprouts that tried to kill me was on the list of worst thing to eat for my condition.

Who knew? It’s a vegetable, but I learned the hard way to avoid them in future.

At any rate, because I’ve done so well, have no serious symptoms, just symptoms I find highly annoying, it was just a blood test and talking me into trying a pill.  Preferring holistic measures, I don't trust medication to not just create another problem, but I'm going to give medication a try. She also suggested I tweak my clean eating by eliminating onions and garlic. Scallions are okay and I can use garlic infused olive oil, rather than garlic, plus I'm to be scheduled with the Dietician.

No pain involved, so I’m down with those suggestions BUT, then the specialist said I’d have to give up coffee.

That’s not a silly thought, that’s crazy talk.