It is 2:16pm on WED 12 OCT as we head out of Indian Lake Estates. Jim is driving me to the Orlando Airport for my 6pm flight to MIA and my red-eye flight tonight to SCL. I am scheduled to arrive in Santiago, Chile on Thursday morning at 7:35.am. <\/p>\n
If you consider that exactly six days ago almost to the minute I was waking up from having my gall bladder surgically removed I would say that it is quite remarkable that I am on my way. BTW, reading the clinical report of my surgery was a very weird experience; it was like reading the instructions on how to assemble a plastic model aircraft carrier except for the fact that they were talking about cutting into my abdomen!<\/em> <\/strong>Speaking of which my incisions are all at the itchy\/grabby stage. All are healing beautifully and today is the first day that I even noticed them. <\/p>\n After getting to bed early on Tuesday night–before 8:30pm–I was up and packing at 4:15am today. As a diabetic who takes must enough needles and test strips , and supplements, a long trip like this requires lots of planning and preparation. I am pretty sure that I got everything done. As I will be in the snow on South Georgia Island and the cloud forest of Peru, I needed to take lots of different clothing as well. Here is the final tally: 2 check spinner bags at 49 3\/4 and 50 pounds. One small duffle bag at 36 pounds. My Think Tank bag weighed in at a svelte 43 1\/2 pounds. What fun I will have with the gate agents. As most of my flights are up front, I am good for 3 checked bags … <\/p>\n Anyway, it was an exhausting day of packing and it feels good to be on my way. I will be resting in the hotel all day on Thursday while the three folks on the Falklands land-based pre-trip are going up into the mountains to photograph condors … It will not be too hard to restrain myself. <\/p>\n Best and great picture-making to all, artie<\/p>\n When I left home in mid-July, I weighed in at 182, my fighting weight. After eating eight jars of various “healthy” nut butters on my 5-week Long Island trip, I weighed 188 3\/4 my first morning after getting back home. Yikes! This morning I tipped the scales at 181 1\/2, my weight loss efforts aided somewhat by my surgery. I hope to get back home under 180 … I will do my best to eat well and to take care of myself and my blood glucose levels. My last A1C was 54. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Against All Odds … <\/p>\n It is 2:16pm on WED 12 OCT as we head out of Indian Lake Estates. Jim is driving me to the Orlando Airport for my 6pm flight to MIA and my red-eye flight tonight to SCL. I am scheduled to arrive in Santiago, Chile on Thursday morning at 7:35.am. <\/p>\n If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-599","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Tale of the Scale<\/h3>\n