You must never check your blood pressure except about an hour after you take your medication. Doing otherwise can easily wind up with a dog chasing its own tail while the blood pressure skyrockets.
So I did that and the result today was 109 / 76 and maybe you think that's bad but low blood pressure even when that isn't all that low is much better than high. It still needs more tuning since I'm taking half a tablet more than the prescribed dosage but any further change or continuation of this one requires Ms Kersa.
I brought up the subject of blood pressure so this is to close it. There was definitely a panic but the main thing is to be cool and wait. There are still unexplained pressures in my head but I know two things: do NOT do any manic rechecks of B.P. and do NOT start gobbling aspirin.
Something which made checking blood pressure easy was I gave blood frequently for many years and was quite proud of donating gallons. Every time I did it there was a blood pressure check so I was getting one about once a month.
Black people are more vulnerable to hypertension than white people and I've not read enough research to discover the reason for that so it remains Something That Sucks. It can be prevented and HCTZ is an extremely-inexpensive medication. Staying alive, in this case, costs peanuts.
There's some thought on putting me on a blood thinner but that's not a 'transparent' medication such as HCTZ and Lisinopril which I've been taking for well over twenty years. Nevertheless, it's a worth consideration and, sure, there's fear in this. My ol' Dad had a heart attack and then a stroke the next day because it threw a clot. At that time it was not a standard procedure to administer blood thinners after a heart attack but I gather it is now.
The hell of it is he recovered quite well from the heart attack but the stroke dogged him for years until he died. Much of that time was highly-cool for him as he got to play with the grandkids and spoiled the hell out of them by grabbing whichever ones were available and taking them to movies. He also spent as much possible time as he could skiing, as in every day, if possible.
In fact, that was another lesson as he showed vividly you're alive until you're boxed. Throwing away the rest of your life on the news you're terminal is just about the worst reaction possible.
So long as you're alive, live it.
Call this morbidity if you like but it's reality for anyone and knowledge is strength. If I didn't learn anything from my ol' Dad then I never learned anything but I watched and learned one hell of a lot. In the cases of some of the sibs, it was an education in what not to do but, fair enough, they were paying attention and they learned regardless of which way they went with it.
I don't mean to grade anyone but Queen Bee possibly took the best lesson from both of my parents and from that she decided, man, I want to travel and she sure did that. I still don't understand what possibly could have drawn her to Dubai but, yep, she's been there. She's been all over the world.
Have a ball over whether whether wealth is money or experience but I'm heavily-biased toward experience. That's not due to present circumstance but rather from seeing Fiji as a young boy. I know I've said it before as my memory isn't all that wonky but it was such a blowaway impression I never lost it and really I learned that one from them as well. She's not so many years younger so maybe she took that lesson in the same way and her current occupation (long time) has been her way to fulfill it.
The last I heard as of a few days ago was she is in Frankfort. Like I say, she gets around.
So I did that and the result today was 109 / 76 and maybe you think that's bad but low blood pressure even when that isn't all that low is much better than high. It still needs more tuning since I'm taking half a tablet more than the prescribed dosage but any further change or continuation of this one requires Ms Kersa.
I brought up the subject of blood pressure so this is to close it. There was definitely a panic but the main thing is to be cool and wait. There are still unexplained pressures in my head but I know two things: do NOT do any manic rechecks of B.P. and do NOT start gobbling aspirin.
Something which made checking blood pressure easy was I gave blood frequently for many years and was quite proud of donating gallons. Every time I did it there was a blood pressure check so I was getting one about once a month.
Black people are more vulnerable to hypertension than white people and I've not read enough research to discover the reason for that so it remains Something That Sucks. It can be prevented and HCTZ is an extremely-inexpensive medication. Staying alive, in this case, costs peanuts.
There's some thought on putting me on a blood thinner but that's not a 'transparent' medication such as HCTZ and Lisinopril which I've been taking for well over twenty years. Nevertheless, it's a worth consideration and, sure, there's fear in this. My ol' Dad had a heart attack and then a stroke the next day because it threw a clot. At that time it was not a standard procedure to administer blood thinners after a heart attack but I gather it is now.
The hell of it is he recovered quite well from the heart attack but the stroke dogged him for years until he died. Much of that time was highly-cool for him as he got to play with the grandkids and spoiled the hell out of them by grabbing whichever ones were available and taking them to movies. He also spent as much possible time as he could skiing, as in every day, if possible.
In fact, that was another lesson as he showed vividly you're alive until you're boxed. Throwing away the rest of your life on the news you're terminal is just about the worst reaction possible.
So long as you're alive, live it.
Call this morbidity if you like but it's reality for anyone and knowledge is strength. If I didn't learn anything from my ol' Dad then I never learned anything but I watched and learned one hell of a lot. In the cases of some of the sibs, it was an education in what not to do but, fair enough, they were paying attention and they learned regardless of which way they went with it.
I don't mean to grade anyone but Queen Bee possibly took the best lesson from both of my parents and from that she decided, man, I want to travel and she sure did that. I still don't understand what possibly could have drawn her to Dubai but, yep, she's been there. She's been all over the world.
Have a ball over whether whether wealth is money or experience but I'm heavily-biased toward experience. That's not due to present circumstance but rather from seeing Fiji as a young boy. I know I've said it before as my memory isn't all that wonky but it was such a blowaway impression I never lost it and really I learned that one from them as well. She's not so many years younger so maybe she took that lesson in the same way and her current occupation (long time) has been her way to fulfill it.
The last I heard as of a few days ago was she is in Frankfort. Like I say, she gets around.
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Hey, I'm really glad you're okay!!
Wish Queen Bee would stop by Hawaii and look me up when she does. Same for all the rest of you!
That would be wonderful and it's a wonderful invitation. Queen Bee looks kind of indestructible as she does quite well so maybe that could happen sometime.
ML, I'm sure working on it and you know the difficulty with your own trips. I know what happens if I don't and that's a bad answer (larfs).
Events and experiences will aleays win out. Stuff is cool but drinking Pina Coladas in the bar that they originated is in a coolness that cant be replaced by stuff. Queen Bee has hundreds of those.
She really does seem like she's made a good play. It's tough to tell how happy it makes her since she's always been inscrutable, at least to me, but she goes to all kinds of volunteer functions with the airlines and she seems to have a ball.
On the other hand, there's the security which comes from secure dollars and I don't think there's been much of that or at least not until recently.
Cavafy gave us in "Ithaca" that we should get to Ithaka (I use a K because Greek doesn't have one a C) with nothin' left whatsoever and that's kind of in the 'you can't take it with you' which we often hear over here. Maybe the way that goes is I'm not taking it with me, my family has it now.
It seems it comes down to a personal call and my preference is definitely to see everything I possibly can but I don't have any kids.
The kids just changed the destinations
I dont know which is cooler seeing a whale breech. Or the look on the face of a kid seeing a whale breech
I've tried but no luck on seeing a humpback breech and the look on a child's face ... may not be different from mine (larfs). To see it, tho, would be one special privilege. I can't believe there's any chance she would ever forget that impression. I still remember that huge aquarium in Australia.
I'm not sure which kids for which destinations but the funniest one I heard or at least in the telling was when she took on to South Africa ... and lost him. It was priceless!
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