Greetings to the Good People of the DaVita Village!

I hope you had a glorious Labor Day weekend, and achieved your MTM goals!  I had a strong one …

I maintained my 32 minutes of high intensity cardio lifecycle (not high intensity every minute, but most!) each day.  Also did the 45 minute brisk walk with my wife each day.  And my PT Points were 19, 26, 22, 24, 27 … backwards from Sunday to Wednesday.  Good stuff!  I am at 21 as of 7 pm today, Monday.   Meditation was about 8 minutes every day except yesterday which was zero.

I am also pleased to report I did very little work on Saturday and Sunday, other than family admin stuff and my Open Primaries Initiative.  Had lots of reading time, some good reflecting time.  We celebrated our 32^nd wedding anniversary yesterday, and I wrote up 32 special thoughts/memories from our 32 years.  We read them in sets of 5 until the last set of 7, the first set with a glass of wine sitting by the water before dinner, the second when we ate our salads, the third before the main course, etc.  It was wonderful!

Tomorrow am we get up and fly back to Denver.  I am so sad to leave our little cottage.  But back to work I go!  Look forward to working with you, look forward to achieving MTM goals with you, over 3200 teammates are cheering you on!!!!

One for All!   KT

Yo DaVita !

It is Friday afternoon, almost 6 pm here at our cottage in northern Wisconsin.

The bad news about today is I had to do more work than I hoped, about 3 hours.  Sigh.  Stuff happens.

The good news is I did a strong 30 minutes of cardio, I am slowly building myself back up.  Plus I have already done 21 sets of PT exercises.  Re-establishing ROM (range of motion) is one brutal thing given how long we had to wait after my surgery, but I am on it like a dog on a bone.  I also actually had a strong meditation session in the bathtub at 11:30 pm last night, so maybe I am building a little muscle in that area as well.  Speaking of little muscles, it feels so funny to be doing things like curls with 8 pound weights, it will take awhile to get the muscles back.

My Thursday # of PT sets was 24, another solid day.

I have not sufficiently moderated my eating and drinking to lose any weight over the last few days.  Not that one can ever achieve monumental weight loss in that period of time, but one can establish a certain amount of positive momentum.  I have not.  On the other hand, I have not created negative momentum either.

One of my calls today was about some new opportunities in Saudi Arabia. It is a fascinating place to do business, we are clearly improving clinical outcomes and patient experience.  We are also doing healthy things with respect to the role of women in the workplace, although that is going to be a long journey.

One of my other calls was about a Joint Venture we have with a hospital system.  That one is frustrating, they move so slowly it kills us.

Time for me to wrap up and take our daily 45 minute walk, with Denise.

I was able to respond to a few teammates a day or two ago.  I am eager for an update on our total numbers.  I love picturing 3000 of us, linked arm-to-arm, marching as one team towards a healthier life.  Let’s Do IT !!!!

respectfully, your Mayor, KT

Good Morning DaVita Village !

It is Thursday and I’m at our cottage in northern Wisconsin, unfortunately kind of a windy/chilly morning so far.  Oh well, good day for book reading and family administration, plus some personal journaling.   This is day 81 of my post-injury saga.  I put on a sweatshirt yesterday that I could not have put on a week ago!  Also can drink with my right hand, almost all the time, not just after a lot of therapy!

I do not know if my log is now entered and reasonably up to date on PT and cardio, etc. Let me give you the recent point tallies, these numbers are JUST my own PT set totals, they do not include any points for cardio, meditation, nor the actual sessions with my Physical Therapist (which separately count as 30 points).

Yesterday (27) – Back at cottage, a strong performance.  I had to dial back on some of the strengthening stuff, because I over-did it on Tuesday and could barely move my arm and shoulder Tuesday night.

Tuesday (19) – At home in Denver, pressed for time before work, given flight/dinner after work.  I am up to 8 lb weights on the curls, from 5 (feels so ridiculous to be doing such little weights, but it is amazing how quickly and extremely one’s muscles atrophy when they are totally unused for 6 weeks).

Monday (20) – Rushed session, had to leave home early for that day long arbitration.

Sunday (28) – Another strong weekend session.

Saturday (08 ) – Misleading as I had a session with my PT, so that would add 30 points by itself.

Friday (05) – Not misleading, I did poorly.  Normally I go ahead and do some PT exercises during meetings, people get used to it quickly and I think it can set a good example so others do the same when they are hurt – it is hard to do the right regimen unless you do some of it in meetings, when you are in meetings all day long as I am.  But on Friday I was just lazy.  Darn.

On to another health issue, I lost 12 pounds after the injury.  But it was virtually all muscle, my waist line did not budge an inch.  I have gained 4 back, and I fear it is not all muscle.  I still cannot get the intensity/duration of exercise that I did pre-injury, PT takes up a lot of time and does not burn many calories, and my long outside weekend bike rides are of course not happening now.  So I need to watch my discipline on the eating side, especially desserts.

I hope you are all having great MTM success!

One for all, KT