oh well, and other rhetorics
where?...
oh yeah, if only the mob (or mod or mom or M&D or some other imaginary friends or lovers or typo or something like that, or someone, even) was around to throw stones or laugh or do something to remind me... if only there was a mob, aye?... ahem, and all...
meanwhile, in RealLife™ in RealSpace™ in RealTime™, life seems to be a series of redundant challenges of late and the annoying part is the redundancy (and it's all quite UnReal™ to be precisely ironic or funny or punny, or something)...
after a relatively decent sleep of at least 12 hours, I wake with overall body achiness and a BP of 189/100 with a sleepy pulse of 47 and then, half hour late, 154/94 with the same sleepy 47 pulse... paging Dr. Kildare... day three of this ridiculously high BP is new to me as it's never been higher than about 150/95 before and that was when I was 30 pounds heavier and only on rare occasions... why did I change meds again?... oh yeah, kidneys... but why did I start meds again?... oh yeah, to lower that occasionally high BP... why are the meds having the opposite effect again?...
I'm also feeling quite bloated... probably cuz the diet this week (six consecutive days now) was more normal than ever and only one trip to the gym and a gain of ten pounds (I hope that's all - and do I actually go work out and run 7+ miles an hour for an hour with BP as high as it is?) and worse of all, the body may have become dependant on the diuretic that I stopped last week (no wonder I feel like it's drowning from the inside... and I'm not drinking nearly as much water as I usually do either), unless I've come down with some rare exotic disease that only the fictitious Dr House could possibly diagnosis after 55 minutes of sarcastic sardonic ascerbic humor that almost nobody gets, but where's a dedicated doctor like that in real life these days, aye?...
meanwhile, at work, my fresh out of the box 3 year old computer is laying fdlat on it's side in the middle of the office floor because there's no bracket to hold the old hard drive, which is not the slave drive, in it and there's metal contacts that would touch metal contacts it we stood it up right and put it next to the desk and out of the way where it belongs... so I have to step over it to get to my desk in the already small office and can't bring the chart rack in and the mouse and keyboard cords don't reach so I must stretch left to use the computer and after a few hours the neck and back are stiff, so work continues to pile up...
the achy body from the high B/P or whatever is causing the overall muscle aches doesn't help... nor does the overall fatigue... I sound like an old person, which really sucks almost as much as it amuses me, though the suckage is rising and the amusement is decreasing cuz it's a joke that's getting old fast, and not even the pun is helping much, yuk, yuk, blugh...
yeah, I know, what can be said...
I'll hopefully have better news and something more positive to write about in RealTime™ tomorrow (or tonight, considering the actual RealTime™ of this writing as opposed to the time stamped on the entry, but shhhh, that's a top secret stuff thing, ya know?... wow, look at that pretty butterfly)...
are we having fun yet? :)
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*sigh
I'll refrain from my wannabe medical diatribe, cuz alas I am merely a wannabe, but wow, those are some impressive blood pressures, and I don't know that I would shrug off the bradycardia as meaning something good (athlete God that you are and all). Combined with your kidney issues, and sorta kinda hints of diabetes issues, it just seems like there has to be someone out there who can tie this all together for you. (I know you're out there somewhere....the Moody Blues hums in the background since you are a musical kinda guy). I don't know who that might be...a very good internist, maybe a cardiologist to address the most serious of your issues at the moment, maybe an endocrinologist, nephrologist....so many ologists who only deal with their little tiny corner of the universe.
Anyway, now that I've gone back on my word and made an obnoxious mess out of my comment which was really only intended to say hello and hope you have a bright, sunny day...I will wish you a bright sunny day and close now before I start writing prescriptions too. :)
it's the Nephrologist who changed the BP meds (cutting the effective dosage by 300%)... I took 50% like he suggested this morning... arriving home from work, my BP was 195/95... continued suckage... so I took the other 50% just now and tomorrow I'm taking 75% in the morning and seeing what happens... if I don't die of a stroke from the Nephro's experimenting with my meds, I may find a balance again one of these days... I was getting regular average readings of 115/75 with +/- 5 margin for the past few months since starting to exercise... so the only two variables since June 2 are the change of meds, the dramatic decrease in med, and the 10 pound weight gain...
I don't think the weight is enough to almost double the BP...
meanwhile, Rasputin is sleeping n the couch (though this typing will probably wake him) so I ate dinner in silence and hopefully he'll wake and go to his room before long so I can enjoy Friday night... night shift sucks when I don't work it and my roommate does :)
and that's the way it is, today, right now, and all that...
thanks for caring... it's good to know a few of you do :)
chart note:
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION: BP: 115/75 before nephrologist consult :) and 195/95 after nephrologist consult :( with medication adjustment.
PLAN: 1. Fire nephrologist; 2. Exercise; 3. Smile; 4. Avoid fumes from farting roommate; 5. Giggle; 6. Eat a little chocolate; 7. Listen to music; 8. Soak up all the love given by all of us who adore you.
(Yes, there were 8 in honor of teh z-context)
i don't.
gonna call the Nephro back Monday and if I get through, we'll see... still want the results of the MRI (appointment is in July)...
might consider going to a new general practice doc for a fifth opinion... there are no hypertension specialists on the list of doctors covered by my health plan... puzzles...
at the moment, it's 196/81 with a 50 pulse... dunno what's up with the top number, but is sucks..
maybe the diuretic is the difference...
but the kidneys?
well, I wasn't planning on living in this world forever anyway...
it's a good thing I know you lie, z, or my feeling would be all hurt and stuff...
I seemed to have missed Friday, huh... bored with sitting around resting and pretending I'm near death just cuz I feel like it...
send a cute nurse...
lol Candoor flew out to a hot Sun spot - and met some Florida people too. lol!
Careful you don't trip on any computers on the floor
Q - you shoulda called and tracked me down :)
hope you had fun...
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