The REX 3 PDA & Satori Labs

Top - The Ebel Voyager Automatic (shown mainly for size comparison) - my good friend Dean sent this to me as a gift. For those of you in the ignorant masses who do not know, the machine below is a credit card sized wonder (for it's time!). I recently had the fortunate luck to email with the CEO of www.satorilabs.com about some soft/hardware his company is developing for Electronic Medical Records (EMR). I was very impressed to learn that some of the engineers and so forth came from Starfish/Motorola to Satori. The machine below the Ebel is called a REX (REX 3 in this case) and was very dependable - a simple but robust day planner, phone book to do list that never failed (until I smashed it with my knee one time!). So kudos to the people behind the REX - I am glad to be in touch to let them know I loved it. I hope to be able to introduce Satori Labs to the small hospital I work at. As we all know though, despite our incredible leader George Bush's wonderful support for healthcare for ALL Americans, our hospital's financial condition is less then excellent. However, EMR's goal is better and safer patient care and it is my hope that we could serve as an example of what might be possible. Ow, that is so damn optimistic I can't believe it . . . can somebody give me a reality check, please!? 

Post Mountain Bike crack up at Salt Point State Park at 30+ miles per hour. Underneath that smile is plenty of pain!  

It is now four days later and my pain is mainly confined to my left hip and elbow. What lessons did I learn from this incident? First, don't stop riding (as if!). It felt good to be taken care of by my best friend the Zipster, also known as Splash (aka Michael Singer - an incredible architect and Chief of the Timber Cove Volunteer Fire Department). Also of great assistance was Alex Dunne, with an incredible sense of wonderful irony, humor, fun and drollness (did I forget to say wicked good cynicism?).

Another good thing to come out of the spectacular wreck (I am so sorry to have not been able to see it) is that I can be even more empathetic with my patients. I have actually taken Vicodin for the first time in my life and am grateful I could. Waking up every hour from the pain was not fun. Vicodin is my friend but I am also very grateful I can start to taper off and just stick with the ice and ibuprofen to get the massive swelling down.

I can hardly wait to get on the bike again. This time I might just watch out for the 4 cm diameter branches! Ouch!