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So my team won the National Title in the Costa Rica Pro Basketball in dramatic fashion. After four blowouts in the final series, this one was a nail biter that was decided in the last seconds. We hit some tough shots down the stretch and my PG was perfect from the line on intentional fouls in the last minute (4-4).
We were up 3 with six seconds to go...one of my guys is on their American wing racing down the court and fouls the guy, who flings up a shot and gets rewarded with three free throws, one second on the clock. My team was in foul trouble hell (one started fouled out several more with 4 fouls), so I was really dreading OT. I knew, however, that this guy only made 57% of his free throws (Just the numbers I kept telling myself as he stepped up). He makes the first one, but then clangs the second one. Then he tries to shoot it off the rim, but misses the rim and just bounces against the backboard (a violation in FIBA ball, our ball)....except that one of our injured guys is so excited thinking the game has won, that he rushes on the court. We get called for a technical foul (one FT, but we keep possession). They make the FT...all we need to do is inbound the ball (our opponent made it to the Finals by stealing a last second inbound and making a crazy basket). I tell my guys, two guys to the ball, the other two go deep, make sure you touch the ball. Our heady backup guard inbounds it deep to our fastest guard who takes the ball, one dribble and dunks it (right after the buzzer).

This is my fifth national title (all achieved in the last 8 years). This was a brutally tough season where several teams could have walked away with the title.

I may have dropped some Dean Smith quotes in our pre-game lunch.

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Link: Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room,’ by Jon Stock

Fact: The guy in the article was alive during the lives of most of the people posting on this board and was practicing while many of us were alive.

Quote from the article: "As late as 1972, in the fifth and final edition of his textbook, Sargant recommended lobotomy as an alternative to divorce in cases where the cause of a woman’s depression was 'a psychopathic husband who cannot change and will not accept treatment.'”

Next time we (by we, I am including myself) in anyway trivialize what women go through in our society, remember what this article says was an accepted practice to treat "hysterical" women IN OUR LIFETIMES.
 
05C40 said:
Link: Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room,’ by Jon Stock

Fact: The guy in the article was alive during the lives of most of the people posting on this board and was practicing while many of us were alive.

Quote from the article: "As late as 1972, in the fifth and final edition of his textbook, Sargant recommended lobotomy as an alternative to divorce in cases where the cause of a woman’s depression was 'a psychopathic husband who cannot change and will not accept treatment.'”

Next time we (by we, I am including myself) in anyway trivialize what women go through in our society, remember what this article says was an accepted practice to treat "hysterical" women IN OUR LIFETIMES.
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I'm continually amazed at how poorly we have treated women in the recent past.

As recently as 1975 a woman couldn't obtain a loan or a credit card without a man's signature.
 
Been discussing adding a new blood pressure medicine with my doctor. Mines been creeping up a bit. Called and left a message today that the measurements I'd been taking at home indicated that we should. That was around 2:30. I've had two calls from their office for more information and just got a text from my pharmacist that my prescription was ready to pick up. Not bad service.
 
finesse said:
Been discussing adding a new blood pressure medicine with my doctor. Mines been creeping up a bit. Called and left a message today that the measurements I'd been taking at home indicated that we should. That was around 2:30. I've had two calls from their office for more information and just got a text from my pharmacist that my prescription was ready to pick up. Not bad service.
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My current situation is the opposite. We cut my dosage of Losartan in half six months ago. I was in for my wellness check last week and I was 105/69. Measuring at home I am consistently under 120/80. My PCP told me if I can keep up these readings for the next six months he is open to taking me off BP meds entirely. Then we can talk about cholesterol meds. My overall cholesterol and triglycerides are good, but I need to bring up my HDL numbers up. I have some calcification in my abdominal aorta, and since I am an ex-smoker (quit almost 35 years ago) he is reluctant to take me off the statin completely.

These improvements aren’t due to significant lifestyle changes like a better diet or more exercise. I think it’s mostly just the reduced stress of being retired.
 
farce© said:
My current situation is the opposite. We cut my dosage of Losartan in half six months ago. I was in for my wellness check last week and I was 105/69. Measuring at home I am consistently under 120/80. My PCP told me if I can keep up these readings for the next six months he is open to taking me off BP meds entirely. Then we can talk about cholesterol meds. My overall cholesterol and triglycerides are good, but I need to bring up my HDL numbers up. I have some calcification in my abdominal aorta, and since I am an ex-smoker (quit almost 35 years ago) he is reluctant to take me off the statin completely.

These improvements aren’t due to significant lifestyle changes like a better diet or more exercise. I think it’s mostly just the reduced stress of being retired.
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I've been on BP medication for the best part of 50 years. I lost so much weight and everything else during the cancer thing that I was able to come off of it for a while and then spend a couple of years of HTZ. I'm not too surprised that it's creeping up.
 
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