There Is Today!

I’ve always enjoyed physical fitness.

While I’ve lost some mobility with my hips…

I am trying to make the most of every day.

Rebecca is showing me the ropes with racquetball, and even Dossy tried it. 

A friend told me: “There is no yesterday, there is no tomorrow, there is only today!” 😉

(Source Photo: Dannielle Blumenthal)

Pain Relief – SUPER SIZED!

This was funny at CVS today.

The “value size” extra strength Tylenol (equivalent)–1000 pills!

Think about it that’s something like 500 headaches…

It reminded me when I worked in the financial service industry in New York City.

The Comptroller of the corporation has a mega size bottle of aspirin right on the front of his desk when you walked in.

It was clear he was quite S~T~R~E~S~S~E~D out.

From a personal branding perspective (my wife is the expert at this), I would imagine that this is not the image you would want people to have of you all the time.

Anyway, pain relief for some is a very big bottle of Tylenol and for others a nice bottle of wine or some time at the beach. 

My father used to tell me the joke, “If I have to give up wine, women, or song…I’ll give up singing!” 😉

(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Medicine Back When

   
I thought you may find these photos interesting of how medicine used to be–not all that long ago.

 

I took these at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. 

 

1) The Circo Electric Bed rotates a patient 210 degrees to help them go from a prone to a vertical position; push the button and you go almost loop de loop. 

 

2) A Hospital Ward–no private or semi-private rooms yet; say hello to a dozen or so neighboring patients sharing a room, moaning and groaning, each their own. 

 

3) An X-ray–say cheese as this machine peers inside your body, hopefully not emitting too much radiation to the patient.

 

4) An operation–looks serious, almost like an alien abduction, hope they had plenty of anesthesia so it didn’t hurt. 

 

Okay, medicine has come a long way…but we’re not there yet, not by a medical tricorder longshot. 😉 

 

(Source Photos: Andy Blumenthal)