Healthcare Woes and Summer Heat
August 1, 2025
Episode Notes
Morning , sir .
Good morning .
How are you doing ?
I'm doing OK .
How are you ?
I'm great .
Sorry I was late this morning .
That's OK .
What happened ?
Uh , I was at the hospital this morning .
Yeah .
Um .
That's all I was at the hospital and it was , uh , it took longer than expected .
OK .
You've been going to the hospital a lot .
I've been , uh , fighting a skin problem for quite a while .
Um , so I , I've been going to the hospital regularly for about the past 2 years .
Um , I've been going .
Like once every 3 months .
Right , right , um , and then recently I , I , I've been going .
Once every 2 weeks , uh , to deal with a different uh skin condition .
Yeah , sounds like being the dentist .
Yeah , you've been going to the dentist a lot lately ?
Yeah .
Uh , I hadn't been to the dentist for about 2.5 or 3 years .
And then I had a kind of funny feeling .
So I went to the dentist and they said , oh , you gotta do this , this .
So I've been to the dentist about 6 times in the last 2 months .
So if you hadn't gone for about 2 or 2.5 years , I assume you have nice teeth or you take good care of your teeth in general .
I take good care of my teeth in general , but you see , I've always had bad teeth .
OK .
Yeah , so I , I , I've got to take care of my teeth in general .
I've really gotta watch .
Yeah , likewise , but in my case , um , I , I , I really like my dentist .
He's great .
And uh I would like to one more frequently , but if I haven't been in for a couple months , I start to feel like I wanna go in and get him just to have a look and have a cleaning .
Yeah , um .
But Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Usually I go in every , every 3 months if I can , even though I recommended you every 6 months , but I like to go every 3 just to check it out .
Um , yeah , this morning , I was , I was in the hospital .
Waiting for my appointment and uh I realized it was , everything was a little bit delayed .
So I sent you an email , right , so when I had been waiting about 30 minutes , I sent you an email , yeah , and you , I might be a little bit late .
Then when I had been waiting an hour , I sent you another email and it didn't go through .
I don't know why , but it like wouldn't connect to the internet for some reason , so .
I sent you an email saying that maybe I couldn't even make it cause I'd be quite late .
Yeah .
Then I finally got called in after I'd been waiting like an hour 20 .
0 .
Yeah .
Um , and of course , the doctor apologized .
Obviously , they had a difficult case , but um , yeah .
So then , then to make matters worse , Yes , I was .
was rushing back after I had paid uh for the hospital visit , after I had uh sent the doctor's prescription for medicine to the drugstore .
Yeah , after I had exited the hospital , but before I put on my bicycle helmet .
Yeah .
Because I was rushing , just to make things worse , I hit my head .
Sorry .
Yeah , I just like , you know , like the , the , the sunshade roof that goes over the bicycle parking area .
OK , it's pretty low , huh ?
And the back end is lower , of course , the front end is is quite high , but the back end is low , and I , I walked under the back end and cranked my head on it .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
I partly .
You know , That's what I've been doing all morning .
I'm sorry to hear that , yep .
How's the heat ?
The heat is hot .
Uh My son just yelled at me that it's 35 .
Yesterday , you know , they , there was a record in Hokkaido yesterday , the hottest place in Japan yesterday was in Hokkaido .
It was 41 degrees , which is amazing .
That's crazy .
That's crazy , yeah , yeah .
I've been um acclimatizing myself to the heat for the last 3 weeks .
But it's just , I , I'm getting up to 80-90% , but the heat is still starting to wear on me .
It has been a hot summer , and I need a drink of water .
Oh .
I got my coffee .
I was in a rush .
I don't have mine .
I'm gonna go get one now .
I'll talk to you later , all right ?
OK , sounds good .
Take care .
Bye-bye .
See you later .
Bye .
Good morning .
How are you doing ?
I'm doing OK .
How are you ?
I'm great .
Sorry I was late this morning .
That's OK .
What happened ?
Uh , I was at the hospital this morning .
Yeah .
Um .
That's all I was at the hospital and it was , uh , it took longer than expected .
OK .
You've been going to the hospital a lot .
I've been , uh , fighting a skin problem for quite a while .
Um , so I , I've been going to the hospital regularly for about the past 2 years .
Um , I've been going .
Like once every 3 months .
Right , right , um , and then recently I , I , I've been going .
Once every 2 weeks , uh , to deal with a different uh skin condition .
Yeah , sounds like being the dentist .
Yeah , you've been going to the dentist a lot lately ?
Yeah .
Uh , I hadn't been to the dentist for about 2.5 or 3 years .
And then I had a kind of funny feeling .
So I went to the dentist and they said , oh , you gotta do this , this .
So I've been to the dentist about 6 times in the last 2 months .
So if you hadn't gone for about 2 or 2.5 years , I assume you have nice teeth or you take good care of your teeth in general .
I take good care of my teeth in general , but you see , I've always had bad teeth .
OK .
Yeah , so I , I , I've got to take care of my teeth in general .
I've really gotta watch .
Yeah , likewise , but in my case , um , I , I , I really like my dentist .
He's great .
And uh I would like to one more frequently , but if I haven't been in for a couple months , I start to feel like I wanna go in and get him just to have a look and have a cleaning .
Yeah , um .
But Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Usually I go in every , every 3 months if I can , even though I recommended you every 6 months , but I like to go every 3 just to check it out .
Um , yeah , this morning , I was , I was in the hospital .
Waiting for my appointment and uh I realized it was , everything was a little bit delayed .
So I sent you an email , right , so when I had been waiting about 30 minutes , I sent you an email , yeah , and you , I might be a little bit late .
Then when I had been waiting an hour , I sent you another email and it didn't go through .
I don't know why , but it like wouldn't connect to the internet for some reason , so .
I sent you an email saying that maybe I couldn't even make it cause I'd be quite late .
Yeah .
Then I finally got called in after I'd been waiting like an hour 20 .
0 .
Yeah .
Um , and of course , the doctor apologized .
Obviously , they had a difficult case , but um , yeah .
So then , then to make matters worse , Yes , I was .
was rushing back after I had paid uh for the hospital visit , after I had uh sent the doctor's prescription for medicine to the drugstore .
Yeah , after I had exited the hospital , but before I put on my bicycle helmet .
Yeah .
Because I was rushing , just to make things worse , I hit my head .
Sorry .
Yeah , I just like , you know , like the , the , the sunshade roof that goes over the bicycle parking area .
OK , it's pretty low , huh ?
And the back end is lower , of course , the front end is is quite high , but the back end is low , and I , I walked under the back end and cranked my head on it .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .
I partly .
You know , That's what I've been doing all morning .
I'm sorry to hear that , yep .
How's the heat ?
The heat is hot .
Uh My son just yelled at me that it's 35 .
Yesterday , you know , they , there was a record in Hokkaido yesterday , the hottest place in Japan yesterday was in Hokkaido .
It was 41 degrees , which is amazing .
That's crazy .
That's crazy , yeah , yeah .
I've been um acclimatizing myself to the heat for the last 3 weeks .
But it's just , I , I'm getting up to 80-90% , but the heat is still starting to wear on me .
It has been a hot summer , and I need a drink of water .
Oh .
I got my coffee .
I was in a rush .
I don't have mine .
I'm gonna go get one now .
I'll talk to you later , all right ?
OK , sounds good .
Take care .
Bye-bye .
See you later .
Bye .