Florida Man spent two hours in the cardiologists office this morning and 10 minutes with the cardiologist for my annual checkup. The waiting time was like that for a table at a fancy restaurant only there was no bar.
The upside is you can play with your phone, check your emails, respond to some of them, get a bottle of water and go to the bathroom only that’s when they call your name.
The nurse checked my blood pressure ran and EKG and a GPS on me to see where my heart is and how it’s doing. The doc finally came in, a new guy from Peru, read my chart on the computer, listened to my heart and breathing and pronounced me unchanged from last year.
I asked him if that was good and he said yes, no change was good.
Before he left, I asked him to give me a rating of my health on a scale of one to 10. He gave me a 9.5 and said I’ll see you in six months.
While I’m no spring chicken, I’m hangin’ in there and apparently in decent health.
In case you’re wondering, the term “spring chicken” originated in the 1700s when farmers needed to sell there chickens when they were young because they brought more money. Apparently older chickens were not as valuable and buyers would say, “That’s no spring chicken.”
It’s really not too derogatory because chickens only live five to 10 years.My computer is older than that.
While I was in the doc’s office tornados connected to Milton were popping up not far away.
Which brings me back to the weather.
The headline on the Huffington Post website shouted, “Monstrous Milton Churns Toward Florida, Time running out for millions to flee.”
Wow, it looks like the end is near for the Tampa-St. Pete area of the state.
And the Weather Channel has at least 50 reporters wearing rain slickers spread over the projected landing area.
Television news loves storms. They also love murder and mayhem, but not as much as weather when they can stand ankle deep in a puddle and talk of downed trees and power lines.
That isn’t to say this is no big deal, It is. But if you’re watching it’s mile-by-mile coverage of the storm’s eye and projected path it gets a little boring.
Here in the southeast part of the state we’re getting some wind and some rain but nothing more serious. For us, that’s a normal day in the rainy season.
Nevertheless, I’ve filled the bath tub with water as they say to do though I don’t know what I’m going to use it for.
Stay tuned for late developments.
