It’s only Wednesday, yet it’s been a traumatic week for me (somewhat tempered by the fact that it’s been nicely warm – we’re supposed to get to the 70s today, for the first time since last September). First there was the dreaded afternoon training session for me on Monday. Not the worst thing I’ve ever been through, but still a bit of a mind-numb waste of four-and-a-half hours. If I’m going to spend half a day not doing work, I’d prefer to do it at home.
Yesterday started off well, inasmuch as I took the day. Sadly, it was in preparation for a visit to the doctor where I was talked into (among other things) a tetanus shot (my arm is still kinda sore today, but I’ve had worse). Other than my BP being ridiculously high (and it’s been fine at home, where I take it twice a day – I made sure to bring in a copy of the spreadsheet I keep track of it in), I am apparently in reasonably good health for an old fat guy who drinks too much beer. So that was fairly good news – but the whole process is still pretty traumatic for me. And she keeps insisting that I get a colonoscopy, which I’m really not up for (plus I’ll have to find somebody willing to take me).
Then this morning as I’m trying to get my shot together to leave the house, I opened up the fridge and entire container of cherry tomatoes (and half of a diced onion) came flying out at me. OK, that’s more of a pain in the ass than trauma, but it was still annoying. Plus I have to work today, always sucks but somehow seems worse when the weather’s nice.
And Trump seems to have won, like, everything yesterday. I’m still trying to decide if that’s bad news, or terrible news. I mean, much as I can’t stand the guy, Cruz is worse. But they’d both be horrible not just for the country and the world, but for me, personally (which is really what it’s all about).
What horrors can possibly arise tomorrow?
Did you get the whhoing cough/diptheria/tetanus cocktail? I got one a few years ago ‘for the children’. Whooping cough outbreaks were spreading.
I’ve been avoiding medical experiences lately but now I am getting back into. Dental appt next week and the scope.
Der Dönald’s victory speech last night was both long and yuge. I’d almost watch it again but it has been clipped plenty already on the cable news. I agree that he’s not as bad as Cruz. What bugs me if after hearing ‘SOCIALIST!’ over and over again, the new talking shot is that Trump and Bernie are pretty much the same because they are striking similar ‘themes’ and attract similar voters.
Nope, just plain tetanus as far as I know. I wasn’t going to, but I’m always cutting myself and getting stabbed with shit, so I figured what the hell – as long I gotta pay the co-pay anyway, might as well live it up.
I have been avoiding the doctor for a month. She says my cholesterol is high and I shout take Crestor. About 10 years ago a doctor told me that and gave me Crestor. In 2 weeks my stomach and anything connected to it felt as if it were burning. So she said eat oatmeal and tha was the end of that. Then the next doctor said both my good and bad cholesterol were high and therefore all was well. Now a new doctor says I should take it, so I tried a low dosage for 2 weeks and all was well and I agreednto continue. But after another two weeks I was a mess again and I stopped taking the stuff but I haven’t told her and it’s been a month. I guess I should face up to her.
It’s amazing how easy it is for us to forget that they work for us and not the other way around.
Though I will say that I like this doctor I’ve been going to, and it kind of seems like, at this age, having a doctor is a regrettable necessity. I just hope to stay away as much as possible.
Hey, they’re plantin’ Nancy in one of our boxes.
Walk with pride, man! I happened to walk by the computer scrren yesterday when the military pallbearers were walking her casket in, very slowly. I thought that box had to weigh a ton because she couldn’t have been more than 30 pounds by the time she dropped.
Of course, the company went under over a decade ago, so they no longer make them here – some knockoff shit made in Mississippi. Good thing
SidRonnie and Nancy could afford the real thing.There ya go. All things lead to Syracuse (or Ponca City, OK); I am convinced!
IMHO baskets are so much greener and prettier.
I really wonder about this whole cholesterol thing. It seems the drugs came first and the tests came later. I’ve read that bone density scans are pretty much a crock and a result of trying to sell the drugs that came out. For example, hip fractures have not decreased because of either the drugs or the “preventative” scans. The literature shows they are useless. Only Big Pharma and medical appliance folks are getting wealthier. I’m sure there is an extreme level of congenital cholesterol that must be treated, but pretty much all older Americans? IT seems we over-treat, then ask questions.I prefer red wine.
I think if you eat right, don’t smoke, get some exercise, and do everything in moderation, you can pretty much ignore all that other hooey from the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex.
Unfortunately, I’m only one-for-four on those things.
I told the doctor that I couldn’t take Crestor to which she replied that many people have a similar problem. So, she gave me somthing else to try while also admitting that my cholesterol was not particularly high.
To be fair, if she peddles enough prescriptions, she probably gets a nice Caribbean cruise.
This guy deserves our support here in NY.
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