Just back from the GPs. Within hours of yesterday's blog I had taken two late night readings of my blood pressure. I took two because the first was so horrendously above the diastolic alert figure that I was hoping a re-run would reveal the first to have been a gross anomaly. It didn't.
Last night I went to bed wondering whether I would wake with sight in only one eye.
As ever, I was being overly dramatic. A re-take of my bp in the morning was still high-ish and so, as advised by the oncologist, I contacted the GP surgery.........
The practice pharmacist looked at my listed readings over the last few weeks, took another reading and prescribed some anti hypertension medication.
'How long will I be on this?' I asked.
'For the rest of your life,' he replied.
Amlodipine reduces blood pressure by opening capillaries in the extremities. If I should get undue swelling in the hands and feet there are other drugs that can be prescribed; medication for the side effects of the side effects.
And only yesterday I thought I'd made it. Just goes to show..............
Hi Rod,
ReplyDelete"for the rest of my life sounds pretty tough.
Right now the news are full of the death of Steve Jobbs. In the German Radio they quoted him by saying (this is a re-translation): "Cancer for me is a useful instrument to decide on the important things for my life".
I was thinking about you: can you / do you see it the same way? I sometimes heart about people who said, that the actual thread helped them to straighten some things out. Is this really the case? Can you, do you want to say sth about that.
Anyway, I wish for you that you can stay on a mentally and spiritually high energy level, "staying with your higher self", as one of my most important teachers once said (she later died of cancer).
Best GerdHi Rod,
oh yes, "for the rest of your life" sounds pretty tough ....
Right now the news are full of the death of Steve Jobbs. In the German Radio they quoted him by saying (this is a re-translation): "Cancer for me is a useful instrument to decide on the important things for my life".
I was thinking about you: can you / do you see it the same way? I sometimes heart about people who said, that the actual thread helped them to straighten some things out. Is this really the case? Can you, do you want to say sth about that.
Anyway, I wish for you that you can stay on a mentally and spiritually high energy level, "staying with your higher self", as one of my most important teachers once said (she later died of cancer).
Best Gerd