welcome to the organic green doctor blog

i am a family physician who was diagnosed with
early mild cognitive impairment(mci) amnestic type on december 21, 2010
this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
because of this diagnosis i have opted to stop practicing medicine
this blog will be about my journey with this disease
please feel free to follow me along this path
i will continue blogging on organic gardening, green living,
solar power, rainwater collection, and healthy living
i will blog on these plus other things noted to be interesting

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

pay now pay later, kexy, neurology appointment, basketball

PAY NOW PAY LATER
if we dont pay now well pay later
am talking about school funding
this state has a lot to loose by not funding education

people are moving to this state  in large numbers
corporations and businesses are moving here in large numbers
will poor funding of schools which will eventually lead to
poor performance slow this growth down
probably
the worse is that the people and the jobs we want to come to this
state could be affected

there is $830 million dollars of stimulus money sitting in
washington waiting for texas to accept it
this money is for texas schools
the governor and other politicians are not doing what needs to
be done to get the money here

my wife shes school district would get $6.5 million of that
money
guess theres a few jobs, services, or other activities that could be
saved with that money

if we dont provide a good educational system and support
for the students well pay for it later

money spent on children from the prenatal period to 5 years old
is a very critical time
money spent then can prevent $40-50,000 a year it cost to
house an inmate
problem is some of these programs are also being cut

pay now or pay later

KEXY 
was told i was kexy
thought they meant i was sexy
looked it up
guess it wasnt a compliment

would rather be squireferous

youll just have to look it up

NEUROLOGY APPOINTMENT 
today i have a neurology appointment for follow up
after starting the aricept
i also will have my genetic blood work drawn today
thats the first step to help verify a future diagnosis
the test is a dna test for the apoe gene
hoping for the non sucky one

then i will schedule my lumbar punture for the amyloid and tau
proteins that can be abnormal in alzhiemers disease
then after that will have the pet scan done which measures
activity in the brain
people with alzheimers even real early alzheimers have a certain
pattern that shows up on the scan

could be a good month or a bad month

BASKETBALL
horns beat the aggies
the game was over with early
this could be texass year
next year the draft make suck players away
better enjoy this year

the organicgreen doctor

8 comments:

  1. What? I tried looking both those words up and it "ain't" in Websters Dictionary on the internet. :-) Then again... maybe I'm just not looking it up in the correct place. But you have my curiosity up for sure! LOL

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  2. I hope your doctors appointment goes well and you get some good news! We are thinking about you and praying for you.

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  3. With all the prayers and support you have, I'm sure nothing but good news will come from this. We'll always be here no matter what! You have a brillant mind, doc and I especially enjoy your wisdom. Besides, I can't wait to hear more of your crazy dreams. They just crack me up!

    By the way, Madi said to say hello! We went to the ARC with the second round of strep and she wanted to say hello to Donald Duck.

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  4. kb
    google the words
    good to hear from you
    togd

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  5. ms
    weather canceled the appointment
    thanks
    togd

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  6. kd
    tell madi hi
    thanks
    weather canceled the appointment
    togd

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  7. Never knew you were such a sports guy! We LOVE basketball. We get tickets many of the UT home games and this year we took all the kids to a game for the first time. They loved it.

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  8. love sports
    love basketball the most
    usually go to 1 or 1 ut games a year
    watch or dvr all the ut basketball games
    use to go to the state boys playoff games
    also watch several local teams play each year in high school and small college
    use to coach youth basketball
    togd

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