Dear Jim:
Well, I haven’t been writing since you still haven’t reached out to me as you promised when you passed 3 years ago. Bragging about having a NUN for a sister was supposed to give you privileges but sending me a sign obviously isn’t one of them . I am going to try and give you an update anyway to show I haven’t given up on you.
First, on a health report I am pleased to say that I now have a doctor who doesn’t believe in testing old people. My blood tests used to take so many vials that I was dizzy for three days. Now I could get more blood from a mosquito bite than they need to do my tests.
His theory, unspoken, is that if they detect something going on but it isn’t yet visible to the naked eye, what is the point of finding it. Tests are expensive and he never read the results when we were doing a deep dive, so it was all a waste of time. His conversation goes along the line of “ if it is serious we will see it and then watch it and its probably no sense treating it at your age anyway so have a good time. My 6-month scrubbings are now replaced by “ come and see me again in a year or so. “
I must say it is a very stress-free way of living old.
On the social scene, I am not taking on any new friends or acquaintances as I don’t have time for the ones I have now. Although I recently had an opening when someone who I thought was a friend turned out to be anything but. May not fill it though.
Although we are redoing our entire back yard for reasons beyond my comprehension , I have had to point out that we haven’t had friends for dinner on the deck in 3 years. Parties at the club etc. have dwindled dramatically and we are too lazy to go downtown for dinner.
So, I guess the description of our day to day would include the word “recluse”.
Now I know you want an update on my golf game.
This year I signed up for private, weekly lessons to rebuild my 40-year-old golf swing from the bottom up. Every aspect that I thought we would keep was inspected and rejected.
So now I have 14 swing thoughts to incorporate in my new swing that takes roughly 1.5 seconds to complete.
My body and brain are completely confused. When I brush my teeth, I find I am holding by elbow close to my body. I sleep in the fetal position with my weight 60/40on the right side of my body. I keep my head slightly tilted to the right and steady 24 hours a day. Walking down the street I swing my arms to drop, sweep and raise to the sky every 30 steps or so.
Now ,when I’m golfing my brain is saying WTF are you doing this time. Old swing, new swing or some Frankenstein moves that I haven’t seen before.
I now get a good one 2 or 3 times a round and in between I lose at least 6 balls per round. My partners turn their back on every shot, so they won’t pick up any of my new moves.
So, you ask how has your score improved? Well in a nutshell I pray every time I tee it up that this time, I will break a 100 . When I put my scores into the handicap system, I get a message saying please only post one game at a time. ALL the girls have lower handicaps than me …you get the picture. I am not discouraged at all and I can hardly wait for my next lesson.
I am devoting my life to this game…what is left of it.
Will keep you posted.
Bill Meder
