It was weird this morning seeing this illustration show up in my Tumblr feed, when I took the photo it was based on.

Separately, can you please send some onerosity~ma my way? I need to renew my prescriptions (bp meds and a statin), so I went to my doctor’s app to click on the Renew Prescription button, but it came back and said, “You have no medications on file”.

Do I:

a. Try to navigate my doctor’s phone tree, which keeps *insisting* I can renew my prescriptions through the app, and has a difficult time taking no for an answer,

b. Go to my pharmacy and try to get them to ping my doctor for a renewal,

c. Show up at my doctor’s practice in person, and complain to the desk nurse?

I'd go with C, Tom. Phone trees make me nuts and the office might not respond to the pharmacy request.

I've been remarkably productive the last few days. Let's hope it lasts.

This morning one of my friends at the dog park pretty much talked me into not going for the knee surgery, at least yet. Jim walks many miles a day to and from the dog park, plus more walking while there. He does this mostly for his heart, and he is super thin, in a healthy way. He's somewhere in his late 60s and has had bone-on-bone in both knees since his 30s, possibly from a combination of being a boat captain and heredity. We've discussed it before, but he swears the horrific pain from when he first had knee issues was completely resolved decades ago through exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee, particularly walking. And losing any excess weight. No, the cartilage never grows back, but the surrounding muscles take on the burden. Walking on the beach in particular is helpful because it is all leg muscle work in the deep sand.

I would start with your pharmacy.