You will be sacking me! Sorry, I didn’t get here yesterday. I had to focus on a presentation I was preparing. I had lots of both fun and frustration, learning how to be more effective with AI whilst I was undertaking this task. My update to you on AI is:
- Don’t panic! AI is great but not all of it is ready to take over as a human. In fact, most of it isn’t.
- I am still a beginner at this stuff but I am very curious about learning more.
- It is not to be feared – just wrestled with!
Wow though…..isn’t it glorious spring weather? I should be out there doing stuff. In fact I have had my blood test back from Thriva and it tells me that I need a little bit more vitamin D, so I really should be out there. I said I would give you a bit of a review about Thriva and why I had chosen this route to monitor my health rather than use the NHS system. I think, I will do this as a short, extra- post but I will tell you that at a headline level, the NHS blood test and the Thriva one are saying the same things. However, the devil is in the detail…. and the NHS one doesn’t have much. Well not that has been shared with me.
As I just headed up to the pharmacy to pick up my ‘emergency’ pain relief tablets, I was listening to a podcast which is called ‘The Mel Robbins Podcast’ because, guess what? Mel Robbins presents it. This week she has interviewed Dr Vonda Wright who is an orthopaedic surgeon. I haven’t finished the episode yet but what a powerful speaker this lady is. Despite initially being a Cancer Nurse, she ultimately trained in Orthopaedics. Mel asked her why she didn’t head down the oncology route and she replied that she feels that movement is an overwhelming antidote to aging and many illnesses. By helping people to move better and more, she can treat the whole person and have a much bigger impact. She also advises us not only to find ways to move more but:
“It is learning how to take action, to change the trajectory of the future, or else you are a victim of the passage of time.”
I have always been passionate about movement, my degree’s title is ‘Human Movement Studies’. I am often frustrated with myself that I have listened to people in the past that have encouraged me to move less. I have been annoyed with medics who have told me to accept that I can’t move very well and that is it – done. The ‘Get yourself to the wheelchair shop and accept it’ attitude. However, it seems that hope is out there in the medical professions, even if it isn’t in my local surgery.
On that note, I should report back on my appointment with Dr Doom which was on Thursday. It was much more calm and reasonable than our previous encounter. Dr Doom became Dr Doom’ish. He kept me waiting for 50 minutes (to be fair, the previous patient did need the attention so I wasn’t irritated by this) so he was keen to be nice to me. He still feels that tablets to keep my pain at bay is my only option but he was at least a little more empathetic to how it all made me feel. We are due to meet again in a few weeks. I am not sure that communicating with him is going to make a big difference to improving my health, but I will keep with the programme.