Surgery--Again

Oooooh! Great!!!

Can you exchange some of the blues for other colours you love?

Don't know if I wanna start with returns. I also don't think they had other colors I loved, which is why I chose the blues. Couldn't find a real green or a print I liked.

I like the styles. And it will be a long while before I shop again, although I've been looking a lot.

Blue is always great anyway!

I think this is a normal situation. When I lost the weight in rounds 1 (2005-06) and 2(2009) I found my trousers suddenly being stepped on...by my own shoe heel. It became dangerous when going down stairs. The cloth which once clung to the legs and rump now saggeth downwards. If we were really getting shorter, we could sneak in underneath the level of the ticketbooth window at the theater after a time.
My trouser situation had been made worse by having gotten ones which had extra cloth and I had had let them out a few years before when I was in the weight gain years. I haven't purchased new trousers again, but figure an inseam about an inch less is in order now. And shirts which are smaller might help as well...the ones I have are like tents and try as I might, I can't gain the weight back, I remain a scrawny sack of aging bones, although still exceptionally handsome.

Big smiles!!!

Glad you've got things that fit in colors that make you smile.

Sturgis, I lost a tremendous amount of weight after two rounds of radiation. I gained some back when I was on a powerful steroid. Hardly a bag of bones, but the pants I've been wearing are sufficiently large on me that I can get them down without unbuttoning and unzipping. My tops were tents.

Some good folks here sent me some clothes--mostly tops--that fit.

J, Definitely smiling. I said to my cousin that I hadn't realized what a difference it could make to feeling good. She said she thought it would make a huge difference. She was right.

My blood pressure is misbehaving again. I took medication last night. After my readings this morning, I took more (not supposed to, but I figured if I went to the hospital, they'd give me meds).

Gonna try to sleep. If things don't calm down, I'll be off to the ER at Bellevue. I can get myself there. No ambulance.

I'm not nebbing today. It makes my BP go up.

Tired of this stuff. But I trudge onward.

BP is still high but no longer in danger zone.

I'll keep monitoring it. If it gets worse, I'll head for the ER. If not, I'm seeing an internist on Wed.

Back from Bellevue.

Saw the internist. They're not gonna do anything about my asthma, other than what I'm already doing. I see the asthma doc in a few weeks.

I'll be taking a fairly strong dose of BP meds. I should give them time to kick in.

I have a symptom that requires some exploring. I'll be tested for diabetes. And I'm gonna have some kinda heart stress test. My heart! It's one of my few organs that's been behaving. May not be my heart. We'll see.

Wet, wet, and wet. Pouring rain. Soaked. I'll probably get pneumonia. And on my way out, my right knee started hurting something fierce. It couldn't happen on the way in?

So you probably already know this - some bp meds make some people feel faint not too long after taking them. This happens to me even with low level meds, so I learned to watch for that feeling. In contrast to high bp, I can feel low bp - my neck feels funnyish. Farmerman said on another thread that he goes back to bed after taking his morning bp pills.

I also learned somewhere that I could get very low pressure upped by drinking water. Don't trust me on that, but I do it now on the few times when my bp gets to the I'm dead now stage.

Not to scare you, just a comment re change of med.

osso, Except for about a year, I've taken BP meds for years. No noticeable side effects. My BP is high, not low. I've been taking the current medication since September. The only difference is the dose. I have the higher dose in the house, from when I was in the hospital. I started taking it before I saw the doctor today. No noticeable side effects.

I'm sure that things are very different for high and low BP.

Thanks for all the info. You're a good kid.

Hello dollink

How be thee today?

Sending you thee biggest of hugs and huge love ((((Boida))))x

Hiya kid, I was at Bellevue today. Saw the asthma doc. Nothing new. I'm the same. I got a new scrip for nose drops. That last one I had made me choke. My peak flow is where it's been for a long time, but my ability to get around has diminished. Why? Quien sabe?

Wandering around with my front tooth missing. I kept forgetting to not talk. I guess I'm a natural-born schmoozer.

Found a treat in the supermarket. Turkey thighs. I bought a few. I'll have one tonight. I'll freeze the rest. Gonna make some stuffing and gravy. OK, so it was Thanksgiving last week. I march to my own drummer. When my own drummer came up in the past, my mother would say, "Drummer, my ass. She's got her own band."

Still makes me laugh. And I've reflected recently on how difficult I must have been to deal with. Still am.

I'm editing one of the most boring books in the history of books. But I'm proofreading a book that's fascinating. It actually has gotten me thinking. What a novelty. Actually two novelties. A fascinating book and my applying the gray matter to thought.

Uh, I and farmer and others also have had high bp and take meds for that. Some of the meds make some people rush to low blood pressure. Dys took my same pill and had the same thing.

My bp has been lower than when they called the family around my mother in law. After the drama, her bp rose.

Yes, I've discussed this with my doctor.

My pressure only goes up now after three days from taking 1/2 of the lowest available pill of its type and then watching the pressure; but it goes up then, so I do another half. I haven't fainted for a couple of years but those episodes were scary - just about no warning, plunk, forehead on tile. Call it a drop. I've had that with at least two types of bp pills. The bp comes back, but I push it along with water now and being still the second I start to feel it.

I don't see that you have this problem, which is some good news.
Looking back, maybe my mother in law did..

I was just saying, watch with new meds.

ohhhhh.... are you at liberty to share the subject matter on the most boring of boring and the fascinating?

Not online. I sent you a PM.

Drummer my ass. She's got her own band.

great line, that!

Except for the heart test (next week), I postponed all my medical appointments until next year.

It'll be like a vacation.

How will Bellevue make it without you!?