The medical and the difficult...

[fajrdrako]

While 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.

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the medication! My mother's on blood-pressure pills, but I'm not sure what sort.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hope they're working for her, just as I hope these will work for me.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

She's doing OK, if somewhat more lethargic than she used to be, but then she's 81.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Some days I'm pretty lethargic anyway; I'm not sure I have much leeway in that regard. But hey, I'm getting better all the time! (lapsing into a chorus of Beatles songs...)

Apparently the other most-effective blood pressure medicines case migraines, to be avoided at all cost.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Indeed!
And you're definitely not in your 80s!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

No, far from it. And hoping to stay healthy for as long as is humanly possible.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Good plan!

Am just watching Torchwood...!