Back to the doctor

Ok, after heading the the doctor the past two days, I go back again this morning. For two days I’ve had something like 140 over 100 for my blood pressure. They checked me out for any heart issues the first day and ruled that out. At this point they think it’s a ton of stress from work. It’s been a very stressful week. I spoke with them again last night and now of all things, I’m going in this morning to be checked for listeria. Yes I did eat contaminated cantaloupe about a month ago and do have a stiff neck, loss of alertness and other things that could lead to this. At least I made the doctor give me an antibiotic the other day so yesterday, and this morning, I no longer have any fogginess in my head. Hopefully they can draw blood and get the results in the same day or maybe to play safe, I’ll just have them up my antibiotics . In knee jerk reaction mode, they did give me a prescription for some blood pressure medicine yesterday morning but after picking it up and reading the warnings, I don’t think I want to take it. It says if you take it and stop you can have a heart attack! It also has numerous gross side affects I won’t go into. Oh yeah, also causes drowsiness and dizziness, the two things I’m trying to get rid of. I hope I’m back down to my normal 120 over 80 this morning which is where I usually am.

UPDATE:8:30AM, BACK FROM THE DOCTOR. Well I just got back from the doctor and have good news! No listeria and my blood pressure is down to 125 over 85 so they said it was good I didn’t take that medicine. Apparently coffee (which I have about 8 cups a day) and alcohol can make it go up. Who knew? Anyhow I’m going to ride this out and be all better in a couple of days and get back to my old self. The dizziness is apparently from maybe some sort of sinus infection (which is what my Mom said a few days ago) which hopefully will pass soon. So, looks like I’m good to go.

Mt partner from Seattle flew in from a meeting in New York late last night. It was an impromptu decision that we get together and map out our vision for 2012 and with me going to Italy, we decided to get it done now. We’ll get about a weeks worth of work done in the next 30 hours or so. I’m glad he could divert his flight as we get a lot more done when it’s just the two of us with no distractions.

The boys are up and the oldest read an entire book, 214 pages, in 1 hour 52 minutes last night! He’d been wanting this particular book and really wanted to buy all 8 of them in the series. I told him we’d buy them as he read them. Well this got him going so he read the 1st book in 1 night! It’s finally cool here today and will struggle to hit 70. It sure feels good outside.

Time to take a shower as I need to be at the doctor by 8am. You really need to take an active role in any diagnosis and don’t just assume the doctor is always right. The other day when my blood pressure reading was really high, it turns out it was first because they were using a small “cuff”. I learned this when on the second day a nurse told me to always make them switch to a larger cuff because my arms are so big. That’s right, medical proof that I have big muscles! Apparently the small cuff on a big arm will always give an inflated reading, who knew? Obviously not the first nurse!

Oh well the misses works today from 9:30 until 2 and is in the shower ahead of me. Time to run, hope all’s well and we’ll be sure to let you know if I in fact do have listeria. If I do, first thing we will do is call the lawyer who’s handling the big suit against the producer as apparently I’d have a check coming! Just kidding, (although there is a big lawsuit), I’ll just be glad to finally figure out what’s been bugging me and then get ready for our trip.

Take car and God Bless,