DH watched some AB today. He's always liked him but usually AB is on after his bedtime. (Hopefully tomorrow will bring some resolution to the posting situation)

The Fitbit is a better fitness tracker IMO, that has some smartwatch functions, but the Apple watch has more smartwatch functions and decent fitness tracking. Both companies are in an arms race with wearable health. Apple Watch will have electrocardiogram functions, and Fitbit has been working on oxygen/sleep/sleep apnea for awhile. But pretty much these are the two big companies left in that a lot of the other fitness trackers like Jawbone and Nike Fuel band are done. Garmin is a little smaller market and appeals to a lot of runners. I can get texts and phone call notices on my Fitbit Ionic, but I can't respond.

The only trouble with multiple opinions is that many times, in a life or death or grave disability situation, you are in no position to get a second opinion. You've broken your neck skiing and the lovely Dr. Death is the neurosurgeon on call that night in the ED. There can be other, less emergent circumstances where your ability to get more opinions is severly limited. I had pain in my knee. I stupidly put off seeing a doctor, hoping things would resolve on their own (which they had in the past). Saw an orthopaedic surgeon, by the time I had the initial meeting, MRI and learned of his plans for me, I was in a grave amount of pain, the kind that makes you understand how people became alcoholics and drug addicts back in the day before modern medicine. His diagnosis and plan was mind bogglingly inappropriate. Fortunately one of my dearest friends is an orthopaedic surgeon. She does hands, though. One of her friends saw me asap, and I had the appropriate operation a bit later, but really, at some point time is not your friend with a medical situation. And mind you I had to see a third surgeon because my friends friend was out of my insurance network, and though he could tell me how much he would charge and I could decide to pay that, he said he had no idea what the surgical center would charge and it could be reasonable or crazy no way of knowing until you got the bill. Which brings me to the topic of bad doctors and how do they get away with their behavior. I live in the Bay Area. This surgeon did his residency at Stanford, spines were his specialty, ha, and it turns out everyon knew him to be the egregious idiot he was. One day at a Junior League meeting I was recounting the story of what happened. I had not used his name and another woman jumped up and said, no doubt you are talking about so and so. The doctor my friend sent me to did his residency with the egregious one, he said everyone knew was he was like, and yet, he practiced in my town, at a major clinic, not Stanford, though. PS In case anyone is wondering, Dr. Egregious said I, a 35 year old woman at the time, had unknowingly snapped my quadracep. This is an injury usually sustained my football players apparently, but I managed it without noticing. Because I had waited so long to be seen, the muscle has shrunk and retracted and the surgeon would have to make a 10 " open incision to reattach the muscle, which he would not be able to do properly because of my neglect and so I would limp for the rest of my life. Turns out I have a benign condition, synovial chondromatosis, which makes it so I grow rice sized pieces of cartiledge in my knee. You could not tell from the MRI. My surgeon went in arthoscopically to diagnose and fix the problem. I have no open incision, friends, and I do not limp :-)

Yes!! I think I’ve watched every segment except this past weekend’s. Have it set to record and have loved every single one. The scenes are fabulous, and narrated to be entertaining, informative, and sometimes hilarious. Those odd hummingbirds were amazing.