So last Monday I went for my visit to the doctor after last week's dodgy Friday afternoon girly oojy-ma-flip fainting episode in the bathroom. She wasn't surprised to see me having had a letter from the hospital about me and we settled down for a little chat. She checked my pulse spoke about my needing blood tests à la hospital letter and then .... took my blood pressure ~ YIKES! "Mmm" she says "that's a little high!" "No shit Sherlock" thinks I! "Come back in a fortnight so we can check it again, the BMA decrees you should have 3 high blood pressure readings in a row before I can give you medication!" I don't want blood pressure medication this is a for a lifetime thing start now, never come off it! SO .. then she looks at my ankles and needless to say I now have medication - not blood pressure meds yet but low dose diuretics. LOW DOSE? These are LOW DOSE? ~ Good grief, if peeing was a national sport I could represent GB @ the next Olympics - as long as there are plenty of public loos around the stadium!
I think my blood pressure would come down much better if I was allowed to go away and do some more watercolour painting! Here's another one that I did during the summer for you to see!!
2 comments:
OOOo poor you. I hope the BP comes down soon. I hadn't the post about your fainting "do" sorry somehow or other I missed it. I had swollen ankles and went to the docs she gave me diruetics... OMG I symphathise with you totally. Suddenly you have to plan all trips to include loo stops. I think you need to go back to France, love your Piccy
The BP will come down with medication but you don't have to be on it for life. Lose a bit of weight and you too can go down onto a half dose like me and then perhaps with some more, off it all together like my lovely mother-in-law!!!
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