Seasons change and so did life and I retired from medicine after 40 years when they started the covid thing. It seems far away right now but everything seems strange as I first had no idea what to do and then later, my thoughts came back to me of who I was and stuff and long story short, my hobby to have serenity ended involving me in a couple great things that were bigger than the busy i intended. First, I get back to mycology and was surprised at the welcome and kindnesses all like it was cosmic or something. Then I'm one of the r&d people assaying and domesticating a new magic mushroom so there can be a tropical wood lover you can grow indoors. Then I'm in the cultivation dept of New Mexico Psychdelic Sciences society and supposed to participate in the governor's review for treating ptsd with psychedelics. I already wrote my letter which was actually about restructuring EMS and it was clear enough, but you know how they drag you to horrible bother panels so you can say "Yes, exactly what I wrote on the paper" and I'm volunteering whatever it takes because NM wants no corporate pirates or destruction or financially sweeping everybody else off, however we legalize anything. Pot taught us and we won't tolerate a repeat and thankfully most everybody agrees. That's super important to me, I really hate them. As if thats not enough I'm now curator for Mykos mushroom, that will see to the type culture collections for 2 places now and potentially more. Personally, my grandson is 3 1/2 and the real thing I live for even though I don't get him enough. I had a couple coronaries a couple years back, the last one before I lost my brother which lost me for 2 years and its only been these last few months that I've been coming back to myself - and look at all that has happened. I was just going to have a highway mushroom stand this winter and repair my own self some more, then God laid out things and I will do a lot more. Mom is 83 and not easy but ok and help when she isn't doing a disaster. Hopefully get her to do the memory therapy now that the skin cancer thing is gone. Thankfully these are jobs I can do while getting back in shape and having two 3 year olds...because they don't seem too different, he is just still sweet. I feel happy to be doing these projects and leaving them for NM when I go back to the forest in a couple years. Any New Mexicans that are interested in the mushrooms hit me up, we intend to launch a cultivation supply and let the shops carry it ie no shipping and better price. Going to do warehouse too, because plenty will drive to get more for what they can spend. But whether you want to volunteer or just get the catalogue I'll make sure you do. We have 7 of 13 Panaoleus known to be active and anticipate 2 more this year. We will help finance the labs and are in line for samples of the newest finds in Africa. We have a strong woodlover collection going, but won't be ready to launch that until October and we're hoping on that, we just started announcing and looking for the funds a few days ago, when the concept of both the cultivation and most complete species collection were kind of on the table at the same time and bumped into each other. But we love it and as fast as we can go The monk doctor in the forest is a memory now and its a good one as life goes. But whats weird is this now isn't love, its FUN that lots of others are going to have too. I'm glad for fun while I get health back where it should be
During your days in medical R&D, did you do any work on the Medtronics TAVI valve. By accident, being held in place by the expanding titanium cage, the cage stretched the capillaries leading back the the myocardium muscle. Along with the cage preventing rejection tissue, prognosis is now up from 5 to 25 years. The best part is that the daily doses of rat poison (Warfarin) as the anticoagulant, are now down to 75mg of Aspirin within a few months. The down side for the surgeon is that the cage has made transfemoral access more difficult. Direct aorta incision is now the preferred method.
