I am dead serious. Nothing has happened. It is one thirty in the night, I can't sleep, I am hungry, I am drinking an awesome double brew sugar free vanilla coffee from Mcd's that Monte brought back for me. I am not sleepy yet (coffee doesn't affect me at all). I have been thinking about anything whatsoever to write about and I can't think of nuttin'!.
One thing we did was finally, after months of talking about it we made Italian Wedding Soup. It was very easy, time consuming, but easy. I worked on the broth all day and it was delicious. I put the ingredients into a bowl with the hamburger and made poor Ange mix it. Then using a melon baller she made tiny meatballs. Meanwhile I had ordered the proper teeny pasta from Amazon CANADA, got out the big bag of spinach and voila! soup!!! It was absolutely delicious but I can see it's really only as good as the broth ends up.
I have big fat chubalub arms, the kind one hides with long sleeves (like Oprah does...look next time you see her). There is no way I can hide mine. I hate long sleeves. I can't function or think with long sleeves on.
The reason I mention this is I am really in need of getting an accurate blood pressure reading. I can't use just any machine. My giant upper arms preclude that. I need the big boy cuffs that only doctors have. I even asked at Life Labs the last time I was in there and they don't have them. The regular ones add like twenty points to my numbers and severely cut the blood to my hands off. And it super hurts. The wrist ones are garbage. They are totally unreliable.
Last time I saw the doctor, about last summer time, I found out my blood pressure had snuck up to one fifty over something. Dammit!!! So she prescribed a weird drug that the tele dr. was upset I was taking. I am already on three other ones to get my pressure down to one twenty over something. He said it would dehydrate me...no matter how much I drink.
About a month after starting that pill, and I am not sure it has anything to do with this, I developed tinnitus in my left ear. And it is loud! And it is driving me crazy. And my head pumps. I don't think it is caused by high pressure...it would be in both ears then I figure but I would like to get a doctor that knows what he/she is doing to get this under control. But alas! This is Canada. That won't be happening anytime soon. So if I have a stroke you will know why.
I haven't been eating really properly for the last while. I was looking at the calendar and suddenly realized we are in the middle of March. Crapadoodle!!!! I need and planned to lose fifty pounds before the wedding May 24th! Hokey Dinah!!! I better get on it!!! Twenty five pounds a month. Hmmmmm....that is a lot of not eating. I think I am too old and fat to shoot for that much. Plus every pound you lose at my age adds another layer of crepey skin!!!
Not that I really care. I like, embrace, being older. Some things have been a surprise though. I don't age in my head. Go figure. And I am not as sure on my feet, my voice won't let me sing anymore, my taste has changed drastically (probably because of all the meds I take...shovel list), I get very sleepy in the day but am wide awake at night, I packed my house to move, mostly by myself, seven years ago. I could not do that now without a lot of sitting sessions. Things like that. But overall I enjoy being older. It is sure easier, socially, than when I was in my younger years. I know EVERYTHING now and it makes convo with people a lot easier. Lol!!!!
Well enough rambling. Another goofy post. My apologies. Til next time...TFL & TTYL
'Age is an issue of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.' Mark Twain
this quote could be my life mantra!!!
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