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Okay, that might be why I am waking up after four hours of sleep, too. After sort of catching up on lost sleep, interrupted sleep, and such yesterday(s), I got hit again by the sleep bandit. Oh well. I remembered to do my vitals and stats this morning anyway. Up on the scale. A pretty typical 279.stupid. Agh! Just drop, would you! On to the bp. Hmm, didn't seem to be taking very long before coming back down. Yeah, probably just not awake enough to... click time off mentally. Hmm? That couldn't be possible, 125/82. No, I'll try the left arm, and make sure I do it right in every way. Lower, 115/72? No way. I haven't seen that bp since the Navy. It has been 150/105 average for... a while, give or take, with a spike or two, and 205/140 average before that for months, and probably 180/120 average for the last... since 1999, December of that year for sure. I am wondering if, when it kicked down or while it is trying to lower, my ability to sleep is disturbed. Who knows though, perhaps this is just a fluke. Time will tell. But... Wow!
I did ask, again, about Ritalin. About whether it might ever be possible to try that again. I was told, how truthfully I don't know, by the cardiologist (not the intern) that the answer was yes but only if my bp was reduced and stabalized. As I said, even if such came to pass I would only want to be on it just long enough to try to gain my own foothold, say a year and a half, maybe two. To get in shape, to become involved in things, to... quicken. Then the stuff would have to be taken away and I would sink or swim from then on. I won't become a junky. And I did quit the stuff cold turkey without a hiccup or seeking 'other sources'. How many chances does a guy get? Maybe just enough? But I am so old now. Engineering school is for young men, and it beats them into the ground. Same with a wife and kids. And I wouldn't have any real reason not to succeed. I hope this wasn't a joke on me, somehow. One way or another, but... here it goes.
Yes I am jazzed. Later.
If it is that low and you're not comatose, it appears that something is improving. As I recall you used to have a trade-off between low BP or any level of functionality. This is good.
ReplyDeleteYep. Jazzed, seriously. I am having that four hour max sleep time thing, and odd 'day shifts', but that is quite normal itself while they are upping doses.
ReplyDeleteThat I have been doing relatively (hugely) better, and with this and that evidence popping showing improvement, that is probably why I am trying to dig a little deeper into gardening. I am hoping for a little (lot) more function. While a garden is a lot of work, for an elsewise healthy man of my age, an acre garden could possibly even be a side production to his full time work. Uhrm, assuming he was a bachelor and had few social connections.
But it is scary, in a lot of ways, too. When Christ suggested that a man stand and carry his mat, and to go and sin no more, that man then had to... well... carry his mat to start, then... find out how to make a living! In the Life of Brian there was a man, complaining about having been healed, and wanting to be lame again. Hehe. Not me, mind you, I just... This, if it comes to pass, will not be easy, more so at my age. But I will grab that bull by both horns. And by God I will have steaks before it is done or be done in whole by the exercise.
Ah, there it is.