Calm day at the beach but there is a storm brewing in Condo

My comments in purple

The beach is very calm today



But the storm is brewing at our condo as we now use masks to ride the elevator to prevent prior sneeze droplet contamination. 




The manager of our condo wrote this letter four hours ago.

Notification from: Regency Island Dunes

The President of the United States has declared a National Emergency to combat the coronavirus outbreak and the World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic. Considering these circumstances, our focus has been to keep our residents, employees, and guests safe. We continue to monitor the situation and will make changes as necessary. We recognize the uncertainty and impact this situation has on our residents, but we have been proactively implementing safety measures to protect our building. 

At the recommendation of the CDC, and in an abundance of caution to protect the health and safety of the residents of our community, we are requesting that anyone who has a confirmed case of COVID-19, communicate your case via phone to Valerie Forese, General Manager, 772-229-0311. This is only a request and the information will only be used for the sole purpose of ensuring the safety and sanitation of our community during this pandemic.  In these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever that we come together as a community. Only by working together can we stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). We are asking all residents to do their part to keep everyone healthy and safe, both as individuals and as a community.  We ask that residents refrain from inviting family and guests on property.

Effective immediately, all guests and contractors visiting the condominium will be screened. 

They will be required to

1- complete a short questionnaire to ensure they have not been in contact with anyone with COVID-19, 2-they have not traveled to or from any of the high risk countries or states, as deemed by Governor DeSantis and 

3-they are not exhibiting any of the symptoms of COVID-19.

4- Finally, we want to remind all homeowners to continue to be vigilant in your adherence to the CDC’s guidelines for personal hygiene and social distancing: 

To minimize the potential spread of the highly contagious coronavirus (COVID – 19), we cannot emphasize enough the importance of following the CDC Guidelines for hygiene and social distancing. These include: 
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth
- Stay home when you are sick
- Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw your tissue in the trash
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe
- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds – use sanitizer (at least 60% alcohol) when soap is not available

For additional information about how each of us can contribute to prevention efforts, please go to www.cdc.gov.

I continue to monitor information from the CDC, WHO and state and local governments regarding recommended precautions and I will continue to keep you updated.

Stay safe and healthy.

I responded to our Condo manager with this letter:

Very pleased with your aggressive stance.

Ginger and I feel well but are worried about the droplet spread from sneezes and coughs in public areas i.e. hallways and elevators

Even if no one is apparently in the public location at the present moment.  The droplets remain for 15 minutes?

Florida will soon be the next hot spot.  

Let's not make Regency one of them.

I do not like people sitting around pool tables less than six feet apart.  

A person passing in the pool or side walkway where it is difficult to walk six feet away, there is a danger of a sudden an inadvertent sneeze directly at other people. 

Please share this letter if you wish.  I am Board Certified physician in Infectious Disease. 

Brian Scott Edwards MD 

The manager wrote this letter below 2 hours ago.

Dear Regency residents,

Governor DeSantis has recently added the State of Louisiana to the high-risk states list. Travelers from these states are mandated to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival to Florida per Executive Order EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 20-86
(Emergency Management - COVID-19 –Additional Requirements of Certain Individuals Traveling to Florida)

The current list of states is as follows:

• New York
• New Jersey
• Connecticut
• Louisiana

Residents should contact their individual health care providers if you have any questions or concerns with your own health. If you can not contact your health care provider, please contact the St Lucie County Health Dept at 1 (866) 779-6121 COVID-19 Call Center available 24/7 |or email COVID-19@flhealth.gov

My response in screen shot below

My concussion with Alzheimers

 16 days ago I fell after drinking too much with my brother.

I didn't think I had a concussion as I did not lose consciousness.

However as my headache persisted I realized I did have a concussion.

It was not difficult to give up alcohol at that point because I concussions were bad for the brain. 
I do have one gene for Alzheimers with ApoE4

I did have two concussions in my life.
A baseball hit my face and knocked me out for a while.
I got knocked out once by a punch, not as bad but I did go down on my knees.



The other problem is many of the 10 symptoms of Concussion are ones I already had with Alzheimers with the exception I rarely have a headache especially one of this intensity that I still have 15 days later,
but it is better in terms of duration during the day.







Slurred speech did not happen.  I can still speak as well as in these two radio interviews a year apart.

Go to this blog People don't believe I have Alzheimer's link 

to finds links to my 15 minute radio interviews.





Worse confusion is difficult to gage but I did make a big mistake in testing my ketone level with blood strips.  I have no trouble to test my glucose with a different strip but my ketone strips were not working I kept retesting over the days and once or twice I would get a result.  I still thought the strips were bad.
Then today I realized my repeated mistake when the strips did not work, I was putting the strips in backwards.




I have been getting more dizziness over the last two years with my Alzheimer's.
After my concussion it became much worse.
Duration now less but I can still get severe imbalance.


I definitely had mood changes with Alzheimer's which I documented here:
 Personality changes with Alzheimer's link




I don't find my memory is worse.
Of course my short term memory has been terrible with Alzheimers.
I can still remember the 55 countries of Europe with my:

 MEMORY PALACE link



I still sleep and eat well.
However I only eat one plate at dinner now 
which is unusual for me 
especially since I am so hungry at Intermittent fasting. 





No nausea at all.
I rarely vomit even with drinking ETOH
I rarely vomit or have

My routine with COVID-19

One change I made 15 days ago that did not help distract me  was I stopped drinking all alcohol.

I started Intermittent Fasting on November 9, 2020.

Learning a routine to do a 12 to 19 hour FAST each day helped prepare me for COVID19.

I find waking up later in the day helps me.

If I wake at 7 AM maintaining my fast is so much more difficult
as opposed to waking up at 9 AM or 10 AM.

I get so much hungrier during the day if I wake up at 7 AM.

I take Belviq and Victoza everyday as well as multiple other medications for Diabetes type two.

They don't seem to help stem the hunger.

The routine helps me handle the hunger.

9 AM Coffee and cream
10 AM  Zero Coke
11 AM Snapple Trop a Rocka diet tea.
Noon    Coffee and cream
1 PM   All morning I am engaged in Twitter and Blog

The more I am engaged in a project writing about something I like the easier to not eat.

2 PM I go for one hour walk while while very hungry.
3 PM I eat lunch usually a package salad or a toasted bagel with peanut butter roasted on top with a banana or bacon.
The salad fills me but does not satisfy as much.

Still getting so very hungry during the day with IF has it's penalty.
 I always feel extremely hungry even though I eat a big salad or a satisfying bagel
which  it is not enough to satisfy my Low Leptin level as a reduced obese person.  

We eat a high protein dinner with vegetable.
If we put off eating till 7 PM it decreases my nightly snacks.

After dinner we watch a movie or start a TV series. 

Hence a recent breakdown.
I don't crave alcohol.  I drank 4-8 ounces a day
Over-drinking doesn't always mean alcoholism even though my Dad was a bad alcoholic.

On days I get extremely hungry and dinner is filling but not as satisfying

 I sought relief 3 times in the last 10 days with ice cream not alcohol.

I stopped bringing ice cream home a long time ago.
With COVID-19 I purchased two types of ice cream.
Unfortunately the first one blew my mind.
Breyers Vanilla Chocolate chip.

Now I yearn for it.

I have a lot of bottles of alcohol and wine in the house.

I can't keep Breyers ice cream in the house.

I have run out but if a came upon some I would buy it.

The earlier I go to bed the less I snack.

That's my day and I have been faithful to it.

I walk one hour a day on the beach.

I am lucky but I also found I have True Grit to do IF and not drink and to keep to a routine.

I am 68 years old and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's 2.5 years ago.

Stay healthy everyone

Mental hormones for good and bad

50 foods that can make you feel happy? link

To be addictive a withdrawal of a substance should cause physical effects. 

IMO foods are not addictive.

You might miss them and crave them but no physical withdrawal.  

It was said oral Ritalin was addictive.
Many kids were on Ritalin every day and did not have withdrawal when they stopped them on weekends. 

I disagree with The Hungry Brain on food addiction link

Not what DSM 5 criteria is link

Despite Alzheimers I called the Stock Market

I purchased $5,000 of an S&P 500 index fund and a Dow Jones Index fund on Monday,  March 9.

I sold before the market went down again. 

Presently Oc 28 the markets are dropping rapidly as the USA had 500,000  Cocid 19 cases in the last week, there is no new stimulus package and Europe is considering more shuts. 

On Tuesday


On Weds it will surge again as Phase 3 of Stimulus package was passed.

This article disagrees link 

Market opens in 30 minutes.  

I may be wrong that it will not open high this AM but I know it will eventually be lower than the 18,500 level I bought into because:




Also easing easing restrictions by Easter is crazy when you look at graph below:

Coping with COVID with Movies

Yesterday I received and watched DVD movie,  Bombshell 




I looked at the eyes of the ladies in the photo above.
Two have green eyes and Nicole Kidman has blue eyes?




I especially enjoyed this film as I watched the TV series about Roger Ailes which I strongly recommend as well. 






The movie presents the details from the women's point of view, but surprisedly Bombshell shows Roger Ailes in a good light at the beginning of the movie played by John Lithgow.

Florida + No shut down by Desantis = Hurricane refugees

 No shut down by Desantis = Hurricane refugees = Florida apocalypse

This is blog 3 on subject should I stay or should I go?

Blog one: I decide we will take flight out March 21 link

Blog two: Family vetoes my decision March 17 link

Blog three: Re-evaluation after missing flight yesterday link

This morning after watching Morning Joe and see how little Governor Desantis is avoiding lock down because he doesn't want to hurt Florida business, she asked me"
"Should we load up the car and make a straight 24 hr drive to KS"

I said no.  We made a decision and we are healthy. 
The window of opportunity is much worse to travel now. 
In July before hurricane season comes, we will do the trip no matter what.  



My twitters today

Should I have stayed in Fl or left for KS

I posed this question on March 16 link



My family vetoed my decision on March 17 link 

Data today, below. March 22.

I expect to be stuck in Florida for 6 months as they have still not put on a state lockdown. 

I believe Governor Kelly KS has been more aggressive that Governor DeSantis  FL.

I think if we had flown out on March 21 we would have taken small risk and been in lockdown for only 4 months. 

Not so bad on the beach however. 
 Prefer my 85 inch Samsung TV in Topeka. :)






Florida much bigger state than Kansas.

Much more travel in and out of Florida.

Many more elderly.

Shortage of ventilations will happen much sooner than Kansas

I live in Martin County

As an ID Doc, interesting to be in a Petri dish experiment

My personality changes with Alzheimers.

My personality changes with Alzheimers. 

I was the youngest son in a family of 3 sons.
My Dad was military and as 'WASPS'  we were brought up to not be emotional. 

At home as the 'baby' I was the most ebullient and talkative. 

Outside home,  socially I was an introvert although I had a group of male friends in grammar school.  

Only one friend in  Stuyvesant High School. 

Still only same friend in Brooklyn College. 

Becoming a Doctor and dealing with patients it was not difficult to talk on one to one basis in role of physician.

I never went to bars or partied. 

In my 60's on cruises with alcohol beverage package I learned to love being a barfly and socializing with everyone on the cruise (not back home).


Loved the movie:



I always had the Brooklyn pugnaciousness when confronted by bullies or liars. 

I will never forget Al Pacino saying in movie below,

AL to policeman at hostage negotiation:
"Kiss me"
Police man: "What?"

Al:
"When I am being fu-ked I like to be kissed."

A softer version I learned later was:

"Don't tell me it's raining when you are peeing on my leg"

Thus I was always passionate and intense at times.

I was told I was obstinate and at times too strong in my forceful responses.

However I was NEVER quick to anger. (that is gone now with AZ)

My family/marriage therapist said I wound internalize conflict or problems and not show emotions while I used rationality to work them out.

Now with Alzheimers I am different.

I laugh at myself because as a fast talking New Yorker I would always interrupt people in conversations as I knew what they were going to say and responded too early before the person could complete the thought.


Now one of the things that irritates me the most with Alzheimers is when I am asking a question (especially on the phone) and the other person interrupts me.

If I get interrupted now, I often lose the thread of the conversation.

Recent example:

Bully at the over 80's hot tube mens group.

March 18 ,2020

Time 5:30 PM

I joined the 3 o’clock hot tub group. 

I stopped sitting in the tub because of COVID-19.

I pulled over a pool chair as I have done before. 

The men started to raze me goodheartedly about not being 6 feet away.

I replied “it’s okay, I brought my tape measure.”

We went on to a spirited and good conversation mostly about COVID-19

One man said he was surprised the liquor stores shelves  were not empty.

I said I was counting on my liquor cabinet to feed me when food ran out.

Then the situation became more dire when I stopped all alcohol 5 days ago. I went on to explain why I did it.

Then out of the blue (literally he was in the swimming pool next to us pool), Dick says didn't I try to stop  drinking before one year ago.

I turned Dick and said you don’t know what you are talking about. 

He insisted he remembers me trying to stop a year ago. 

I said he might refer me stopping alcohol for 2 weeks while I was taking an antibiotic that has a reaction to alcohol. 

Then Dick says oh, it was two years ago.

Dick I said I have not tried ever to completely stop drinking alcohol.   

Dick I know you think you are being funny distracting from more serious subjects.

I had just told a new guy in the tub that I have Alzeimer's. 

I have announced it many times in the hot tub with Dick present. 

I then told him I don’t think you should play with me pressing my buttons when you know my disease.

Dick asks sincerely what disease is that? 

I told him I have Alzheimers. 

Dick asks in a surprised voice “You have Alzheimer’s?

I angrily left the hot tub.

I have thought about how to approach this in the future. 

If Dick does this again I will try to remain calm and 

say:

Dick you know I have Alzheimers and I don’t think it is nice of you to take me down a rabbit hole just because you can.

I will try to do this. 

I considered making an official complaint to the Board just to add to a list of complaint that might already be there. He is chairman of the board of the condo. 

I have not sent the letter in.

I don't want to make enemies.


The next day after walking the beach and washing my feet he came over and said hi.
I softly said I was fine and turned away as he was two feet in from of my face.
Not the social distance of 6 feet with COVID-6.

Success with IF but will I ever lose the visceral fat roll?

My lowest weight during COVID 19 shutd





I broke through my plateau of 210 pounds with Intermittent fasting and stopping Alcohol.

But will I ever get rid of the roll of persistent visceral fat shown below.



Today's data below:




Warning:

Old man photos.

Full frontal at 203 pounds not sucking in gut but trying to stand straight.





Normal side view, not sticking gut in or out.
I have had this posture for long time.  DISH


Sticking gut out.




Sucking in my gut.
No washboard but I can see my ribs.




My data since in Florida Jan 20, 2020 link