Damian was my best friend growing up. We rode bikes all over Berkeley, played chemist in his basement and at school, raced RC cars, and played video games well past any respectable bedtime. When my family sold our house and moved onto a 42’ Tayana in Sausalito Damian and I lost touch. We were young and even though we were both computer nerds, email wasn’t what it is today and writing wasn’t really in my concentration.
With the great proliferation of facebook I was lucky enough to be found by Damian! I was beyond excited to reconnect, and slightly startled to find that not only had he dropped the promising IT career and became a CHP officer, but had gotten married. He was always the best in all things technical, building RC cars, chemistry, physics, and computers. His even-keel mindset I’m sure has made him a great CHP.
He brought his wife midway to Newport to meet up. We had a great lunch catching up, and a coffee talking about MBAs, business, and the world. Its curious how people change, but how easy it is sometimes to fall back into friendships. Hopefully when I have more free time we can all do a double date and fly over to Catalina for a picnic.
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In other news, I finally discovered a doctor who has been able to give me a definitive response to the issues with my foot. The first doctor thought it was a pulled muscle, Dr. Reingold found a small non-displaced fracture which he wanted to open me up for, Dr. Matt Alavi used acupuncture to close that fracture up to half its size, but the foot still gives me trouble diving.
Dr. Sharon Dreeben is confident that the fracture Dr. Reingold thought was so intense is now only one to two millimeters deep and being non-displaced is not likely to be giving me the trouble I am experiencing. She believes that the pain is from a small surface area of connection of a tendon that connects near the fracture. She also found a floating bone fragment. The plan is to remove the bone fragment and more suture the tendon down better.
For now though, its summer! I’m going to dive, snorkel, and surf to my heart’s content while it is still board shorts weather.