Yet More Blah

[ellyssian]

The bug is in the throat. This is kind of like Jaws 3-D, where "the shark is in the park" becomes a catch phrase, except it's really more annoying than that... umm... paragon of movie making art.

Deb is even worse off, which is a shame, because last night she was taken out for her Kissmas gift from 1jadedhart. She was able to enjoy the Jeffrey Gaines show, but afterwards, she went with 1jadedhart and dragonflypug for a few drinks and that venue allowed smoking. As I took some sick days earlier last week (and worked from home for some others), we gave Deb a sick day today. Of course, the real shame last night was that Deb looked great, but the smooching scene just wasn't happening with both of us sick. =(

On another tangent in the health-related department, blood pressure is a royal pain. First, it's high enough to give a hard-boiled admissions nurse a coronary when she measured it (assisted by the fact that while she was rallying the forces to save me from imminent explosion, I heard a call of nature and she thought I had wandered off and died), and now it's low enough that standing up meets with some challenges.

After a bit of dizziness as I stood up from picking out a CD or three to listen to, I experienced yet more dizziness walking from one end of the house to the other, and thus decided to measure it. 90/52. From a personal (measured) high of 205/164 a few years ago, and an average unmedicated value of 160/104. Oy. That makes the annoyances of a cold that much more annoying.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

o_O

[wyyknot.livejournal.com]

Goodness! Go lie down before you fall over, and for pity's sake DON'T be running any of that new machinery!

Is it just the cold, or are you on new BP meds??

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

The meds haven't changed. The diet has, slightly.

That's - LOW :-).

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Maybe get a second opinion on any meds...?

When I had this flaky pressure thing going, they plain refused me any medication, for just this reason.
(And pressured/scared me into losing weight, which pretty much did the trick.)

VERY sane advice on the machinery. Please take care!

And *if* you drop, please tell people not to drag you upright, you'll get there, but will have to lie flat for a while :-).

Re: That's - LOW :-).

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Right now it seems a Limited Time Only event, just for that one morning. Doesn't mean I don't stand up much slower since then, just in case! =)

I'll be keeping an eye on it. It's my hope I'll be able to drop the meds (hey, each pill costs more than a dollar, and I have to take one a day, so that savings will come in handy! =)

[noone234.livejournal.com]

Diet is now... ? Food seemed healthy, last few times I visited. (There were no bacon-wrapped sausage slices, fried in bacon fat.)

I hope it stabilizes when you start working hard outside. A desk job ruins the body.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I've been eating less, overall.

I used to eat much larger quantities of whatever I'm eating. I used to laugh when people would talk about huge servings at various places - I'd finish off my plate and still be hungry enough for a snack when I got back to the office. Now there's been more than a few times where I haven't finished off what was on the plate.

I tend to eat less at home as well, which, when combined with the fact that I've been doing less of the cooking, means Deb's suspicious that I don't like her cooking. Unfortunately for her, I do like it. I just eat less than one, sometimes two, sometimes all three of the kids. =)