Nobody gets me as well as Larry Mason!!Here is his suggestion for a T-shirt for me. I will add this to the one I have always wanted that says “I am a Drunkard with a Running Problem” 🙂

comes my new running shirt…. it reads “Wine Drinker With A Running Problem”. Fairly apt for me, I say…

Got quite a few smiles from other runners in the running trail today!!

After vaccination and running shirts, comes my next passion – motorbiking…

The shirt says –
“I ain’t perfect, but I can still ride a Motorcycle.
For an old man, that’s close enough”

Nikita is part of a Mock trial group. Apparently, she is the co-President of the group. Their funny T-shirt – apart from naming the Defense team (which she is part of) and the Plaintiff team, also reads – “Your Honor, I am confused” !!! 🙂

After vaccination, running and motorcycle, this features my combined passion for palliative care unit patients in hospices and mixology! Not to speak of beaches 🙂

…representing another skill I am trying to learn. After running, motor biking, mixology comes skateboarding…

In case of a skateboard accident, it gives you reassembly instructions … you know, so you know where my left arm goes, my head goes etc etc… 🙂

This one reflects on my advancing age (55 trips around the sun and counting…) and my affinity towards wine and cocktails. This one says :

“At my age
I need glasses”

Got a lot of approving comments from random strangers!!

My race T-shirt brought out some chuckles. There is nothing on the front. In the back it says “If you can read this, I am not last!”

At first I was enjoying that folks would pull up from behind me and come to the front to say how they found the shirt to be very funny.

It is only much later that I realized I might have inadvertently encouraged them to speed up and leave me in the dust!!

Remember the T-shirt that I ran my last 5K in? It was blank in the front and in the back, it said “If you can read this, I am not last!”

I have this one for my motorbike rides. It says “If you can read this, SHE FELL OFF!!”

My general physician calls me a “super compliant” patient. And it is true that I follow all medical instructions to a T.

There was a controversy around how long I was supposed to stay silent after my recent throat surgery. The discharge documents said “till post op checkup”. That would be two weeks. Doctor Law had suggested 5 days when we were going thru the pre-op checklist.

I stuck with the longer duration. And that surprised Doctor Law. After putting the probe thru my nose he turned the camera on and both of us could see that outgrowth was gone. He was very pleased with how the whole area has healed.

“So, you did not talk for 2 weeks?”, he asked.

I nodded.

“Well, you can see the effect of it. The area is healed better than we see with other patients. You are 80% there and with therapy you will be 100% there.”

“When you talk, follow Bryan’s (the speech therapist) instructions. Like no more than 10 minutes per hour for the next week. And I will see you in 3 months. I expect nobody will even realize you went thru a surgery.”

“So, now that you will be talking again, what are the first words that will come out?”

I thought for a while and asked with a very crackled voice “Can you prescribe two more weeks of silence?”

That had him laughing heartily.

“Really? You liked it?”

“Well, I started learning ASL. I am sure my friends found me less obnoxious. And I got a lot of hall passes to stay away from house chores. What is there not to like?”

“Naah… I think you should start talking.”

Got myself an appropriate T-shirt though, just to be safe!