Today, at least for me (us), I’m entering uncharted waters. By the time this is posted, we will be driving toward a clinic in Euless, TX, to have the HDX device implanted along my spine. Along the way, we will drop Dickens, our Golden Retriever, off at a doggie day care after I wake up at 0545, which cuts time off my dialysis schedule. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to adjust to “normal” workflows; there is no way around it.

It took a lot of pieces to fall together to get this to happen. The psych eval was completed last Thursday evening. The clearance from my cardiologist didn’t arrive until late Friday. The script for my meds didn’t get posted until Saturday. I’m still getting text after text from the clinic, the doctor doing the work, the antithesoglist, and on and on.

In the face of such uncertainty, rather than getting uptight about it, I fall back on the US Navy SEAL ethos. See the embedded guideline below. Herein, we will never ring the bell.