The medical and the difficult...
Oct. 25th, 2006 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoWhile doing weights and aerobics this morning I watched the first Torchwood episode, "Everything Changes", once more. Enjoyed it even more on second viewping. It made me want to linger over the exercises, do a few more repetitions... so I did.
Then I went to the doctor, for the scheduled bookd pressure discussion. I've been recording my blood pressure weekly; the average has been 145/90 - a genetic thing, says my doctor, and no point working with exercise and diet because I am already exercising and eating well. So: I am now officially diagnosed with hypertension, and I'll be taking Altace (ramipril) as well as novo-hydrazide (hydrochlorothiazide) which I was already taking. I have trouble remembering the word hydrochlorothiazide but why should that be, when I have minimal trouble with Rexicoricofallipatorius?
Don't answer that.
At work, I had a task that I felt intimidated by. A note to myself, which I already knew, but already forget: if there is something you are afraid of doing, do it. The act is never as bad as the fear of the act.
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Date: 2006-10-25 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-25 06:25 pm (UTC)Apparently the other most-effective blood pressure medicines case migraines, to be avoided at all cost.
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Date: 2006-10-25 06:34 pm (UTC)And you're definitely not in your 80s!
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Date: 2006-10-25 08:05 pm (UTC)Am just watching Torchwood...!
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Date: 2006-10-25 07:01 pm (UTC)hope they work in the desired way,
without to many unwanted 'extra's'
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Date: 2006-10-25 08:39 pm (UTC)Thanks for putting my mind at ease about the Altace. I take my first pill tonight.
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Date: 2006-10-25 11:03 pm (UTC)What. the. fuck.
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Date: 2006-10-27 04:53 pm (UTC)Very true. Fear is one of the reasons why I procrastinate.
Though if I wanted to be pessimistic, I could add that there's always the chance that the things that you're not expecting to be bad actually turn out to be horrendous...
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Date: 2006-10-27 05:42 pm (UTC)Uh-huh. Me too. That's a habit I should unlearn. I sometimes rationalize that if I procrastinate, the situation may change, and I may not have to do the thing I fear. That works so seldom that it's a bad idea; just attacking the task is a much better thing to do. Attack-escape, my martial-asrtist husband called it.
Horrendous things do happen, but I think they happen irrespective of whether I fear them or whether I don't. Life is just too difficult to predict that way.
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