October 15, 2008

Yo DaVitans!

It is now Wednesday morning.

GOOD NEWS!

It appears the horrifying number that appeared on the scale after my road trip and reunion was a temporary spurt. The number this morning was 1.5 pounds from my 188 goal!

I started yesterday with work at my desk at 7:00 a.m. At 8:00 a.m. I was off to the Casa Del Norte, our office near the San Francisco airport where they kindly let me use the conference room for meetings. As usual I had a scheduled call for the car trip, this one with Ben Lipps the CEO of Fresenius. Once I got to the office, I had an interview with an author of a book who thought some DaVita stuff might be good to include. After that was a four hour meeting with the CEO and another executive from NxStage, the home hemodialysis equipment manufacturer.

In the midst of all that was a lunch of salmon and asparagus, with a little salad with a little dressing.

After the NxStage meeting, I reviewed budgets for Purchasing, Investor Relations, and a new budget for our Bundling Team, the group that will prepare us to deal with the bundling of our reimbursement system in 2011.

I hopped in the car and took care of a few calls and some voicemails on the way home. My 3:30 p.m. call was on a couple personnel issues, 4:00 p.m. was on a physician issue, 4:15 p.m. was a call on the DaVita Corporate Social Responsibility Report (which could be very very cool!), and then I tackled miscellaneous phone calls and emails until 7:30 p.m. At that point my wife was pretty intense about my starting my workout. I only got a short one in, 26 minutes on the lifecycle and a set of crunches and one minute of stretching.

After dinner I got to visit my daughter in college because she needed something from home. Denise gave me cupcakes to deliver also – anyway, she met me outside, took me into her dorm for my first look at her room, and when I turned to leave a couple minutes later, intent on not overstaying my welcome, she actually said “can’t you stay and talk for awhile?”  After I came down from the ceiling I sat and had a glorious 20 minutes of rambling conversation with my precious Bina and then drove cheerily home. She is happy, and learning!  (Whew …)

This morning I hit the office at 6:30 a.m. It is an out-of-body experience today, because a big meeting was cancelled at the last minute and so I actually have three unscheduled hours in a row!  I had my normal breakfast, and will workout in a little while. It is time for a good workout, let’s see if I deliver.

I hope you all are doing well!  I hope you are all benefiting from the posts of the rest of the team, as we march arm in arm towards our goals.

One for All,

KT

(Never is a good knife made from bad steel)