No pickleball today
Apr. 18th, 2025 10:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertIt is too windy to play. My annual membership at the Georgetown Tennis Center runs out sometime this summer, I think. At that point I might shift over to the town closer to me and try to play indoors. The set up is different. They do something called paddle stacking. You put your paddle on a bench where there are others. When four of them are together and a court is available you play. It is somewhat intimidating as cliques are already formed but I'm sure over time it will be the same as now. I'll get to know people. Like some, dislike some, bear with them all.
Much as I hate to leave the people I know it is further away, more expensive, and the weather is always a problem.
Movement is so important to me and PB really facilitates it.
So I might try the local rec center and, yuck, meet new acquaintences.
Meanwhile I've been trying to figure out the drug situation. I set up Dana's morning prescriptions and vitimins for the next seven days. She has 13 different drugs to take in the morning. She has a good system but it is definitely hers. She has symbols drawn on the tops of the different bottles so she can see which is which without having to pull them out and read the label. Great but not really transferrable.
I'm researching apps that might workand have loaded up one for me, Medisafe, that currently has my drugs (I take four each day). There are about 10 drug apps with varying uses. Some really try to work with your entire medical history. I contend that AI should be doing that with a doc supervising. I've not met a doc yet that can integrate all the information in my chart much less Dana's. It is not that they don't have the capability it is that they don't have the bandwidth and time. AI has infinite bandwidth and time and, from what I've been able to see using ChatGBT and others, would be exceptional at asking me the right questions at the right time. Suck in the data from my phone and watch and scale and why is my blood pressure cuff not wireless and automatically recorded like my weight scale is? Suck it all in. Monitor me. Ask me a question if there's an anomaly. Do all the stuff that a doc who sees me once a year can't do.
Meanwhile, back in reality, The Medisafe app is pretty damn good. It will read the label on a medicine bottle and get all the necessary info to import. Just a few more clicks and it is listed and set up to remind. Click one button in the morning when I've taken my pills to say that I've taken them all at this time and I'm done. It is really elegent. Good reporting and she can share with me so I can see what she has and when it needs to be refilled.
Still testing and hers will be the real test but at $30/year it is a great deal. I'd pay more and with my few meds I think my version is free.
Otherwise I'll probably do a little work on the chicken coop today. I've got to install latches and mount one door. I'll need to buy paint soon.
Much as I hate to leave the people I know it is further away, more expensive, and the weather is always a problem.
Movement is so important to me and PB really facilitates it.
So I might try the local rec center and, yuck, meet new acquaintences.
Meanwhile I've been trying to figure out the drug situation. I set up Dana's morning prescriptions and vitimins for the next seven days. She has 13 different drugs to take in the morning. She has a good system but it is definitely hers. She has symbols drawn on the tops of the different bottles so she can see which is which without having to pull them out and read the label. Great but not really transferrable.
I'm researching apps that might workand have loaded up one for me, Medisafe, that currently has my drugs (I take four each day). There are about 10 drug apps with varying uses. Some really try to work with your entire medical history. I contend that AI should be doing that with a doc supervising. I've not met a doc yet that can integrate all the information in my chart much less Dana's. It is not that they don't have the capability it is that they don't have the bandwidth and time. AI has infinite bandwidth and time and, from what I've been able to see using ChatGBT and others, would be exceptional at asking me the right questions at the right time. Suck in the data from my phone and watch and scale and why is my blood pressure cuff not wireless and automatically recorded like my weight scale is? Suck it all in. Monitor me. Ask me a question if there's an anomaly. Do all the stuff that a doc who sees me once a year can't do.
Meanwhile, back in reality, The Medisafe app is pretty damn good. It will read the label on a medicine bottle and get all the necessary info to import. Just a few more clicks and it is listed and set up to remind. Click one button in the morning when I've taken my pills to say that I've taken them all at this time and I'm done. It is really elegent. Good reporting and she can share with me so I can see what she has and when it needs to be refilled.
Still testing and hers will be the real test but at $30/year it is a great deal. I'd pay more and with my few meds I think my version is free.
Otherwise I'll probably do a little work on the chicken coop today. I've got to install latches and mount one door. I'll need to buy paint soon.
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