What pisses you off?

[stui magpie]

[stui magpie]

[Skids]

Coversyl were the 1st my Doc tried. Had no effect at all on my BP. He put me on another one that worked, can't remember the name, but 2 years later it was creeping up again.
Been on the current 2, Zanidip & Micardus plus for over a decade. That's about to change this morning.

Going to be difficult as I fly back to work Monday night for 2 weeks. I guess I've got 4 days to see what side effects, if any, come with the new stuff.

I wonder if me smoking hardly any gunja recently has had anything to do with my BP ?

* Just got back from the Doc, a slight tweak is all that's needed he tells me.
Stay on the Zanidip but the Micardus Plus 80/12.5 changes to 80/25. Takes a few weeks to kick in fully, so I start checking it again just before xmas and see if that works.

[watt price tully]

[Skids]

Cheers for that! It's worth a look I guess. Taking tablets that make you piss even more isn't much fun, geez this getting old sucks!
Maybe why I'm such a grouch David

Funny thing is, I was diagnosed at 28 with high BP. At the time, I was the fittest I've ever been in my life. 78kg (100kg now), I was riding over 100km's a week, swimming 2k a week, boxing trainning 4 nights a week. My diet was heaps of veg with small portions of meat/chicken or fish. Wasn't smoking and only drinking occasionally.

I went to the docs with a sore left elbow that was hindering my boxing, tennis elbow, fish oil has done wonders for that. He says "I've never checked your BP" whacks the thing on me... 160/110, checks it again, you're verging on hospitalisation he says. I was blown away! He could see the shock I was in and said, "Better finding out now and treating it than having a stroke at 40".

Long history of High BP on my Dads side of the family.

I left the doctors, scripts in hand, went straight to the bottleshop, bought a carton of VB and a packet of Winny Blue.

[Skids]

[stui magpie]

Going without booze isn't an option unless it's life or death, then I'll think about it.

These days I generally only have one beer a night and a few glasses of red wine. In the hot weather I may go spirits with a mixer a bit more.

I tend to be reasonably careful with what I eat otherwise, I just drink most of my carbs.

[HAL]

See you later.

[ronrat]

Tried to get a tooth out but the fang farrier said she couldn't do it unless I stopped taking warfarin for a fortnight and suggested I go to hospital. So yesterday I go to Pattaya City which is public but I have to pay Anyway they took some blood and my bp and I have elevated cholesterol and hypertension. So cut out sugar as much as I can (no more rum and cokes) and salt. The good news was some of my things were good. Whole lot cost me 60 dollars which included a months supply of medicine and have to go back next month.

To get my tooth removed in the hospital which is recommended I have to be at Pattaya City at 6 am and hope to be in the first 25 . The other option is a root canal but stuff it. A plate here costs 200 bucks. You can pretty much walk into a dentist here and get treated No 6 month waits. All dentists and doctors here speak english.

[ronrat]

The girlfriend washed my shorts without going through the pockets which she normally does looking for money. My passport was still in the zipped pocket because I had taken it to hospital. It is ruined and I will have pay a fortune to get a new one and waste a day going to Bangkok to apply, a day at immigration trying to sort out visa stamps and reentry stamps. Xmas dinner is cancelled as is the christmas presents although I have already got some for the little kids.

[think positive]

Bugger, you cant dry it out at all??

So 2 weeks ago I arranged for my FIL to have cataract surgery in hope of improving his 10% of vision, and I told the nursing staff the date, and that he must not eat that morning. We reminded them on Thursday I think. Yesterday hubby me and hubbies sisters visited and told reception, the nursing station and I stuck a big red texta message on his door. Arrive at 8.20am with hubbys sister, to find him tucking into brekky, in his pjs. We grabbed the food. He had drunk 1/2 cup coffee and about three mouthfuls of toast. I gave the tray to the girl who had just dropped it off and said why did you feed him? She says his tray was there, me, can�t you read?? We managed after 1/2 an hour to get his surgery set back a couple of hours, otherwise the next appointment is the end of January. The man has a 20 min memory loop, and can barely see. While she arranged that I started dressing him. Pulled off his pj pants and he stunk, so I changed his jocks with my eyes closed, I mean cone on, the poor man should still be afforded some dignity. When the op got changed I got them to shower and shave him and we marched down to the manager. As I explained to her all the apologies in the world won�t help if he had missed his op, or worse, if we got there after brekky and he couldn�t remember eating it, and he dies on the $�$%^%%$ table. I didnt trust them so i brought him home for a couple of hours before his appointment. I should have been home by lunch time, got home at 5, after getting him to sleep, about to go back and check on him. How $�$%^%%$ hard is it? Lazy, pathetic, uncaring, scumbags. I�ll be firing off a letter tomorrow suggesting some measures, and demanding a showering schedule. I just can�t believe I�m here again.

[Skids]

47... 46... 45.... jesus, I don't know if it's coz I'm getting older, but these warmer days are kicking me hard!

Day one of 14 and I'm shagged. They want us to work 'til we're 70? Come up here and do a swing with the skidsta... then tell me that.

[ronrat]

A day from hell. Got up at 5.00 am to go to get dentist appointment.

Went back at 8 am. Tooth killing me.

Gp through dentist and 2 nurses and 2 Drs asking same questions. Can;t you dickheads put on the computer.

Have to get new blood test because one taken Saturday tested for everything but what was asked for, Missus thinks I am in nearby massage joints etc.

All sorts of waiting around until get to see a different one who is not only without information talks to me like I am 4. Rex Hunt

Leave at 3.00 with tooth still sore and no way forward for pain relief.

Get home no dramas. Take Tukky for walk.

Girlfriends kid comes home, gives me some money and leaves. He has been sacked from a job he is actually good at because foreman would not sign papers for juvenile justice system.

Tell everyone I will go out for a couple of reds and some painkillers.

Get home around 10.00 and decide Tukky need another walk. Decide to go local (10 metres where she can have fun and I clean up. Never worry about leash for that little bit. Plan sleep after. Tukky takes 1 step out of house and 2 dogs just up the road , both 4 times her weight attck her and roll her in mud and owner manges to get them off. Tukky has big gash/bite in stomach. German partner of owner who is drunk comes over threatening me and my dog and "Is yor fault she not on leash:. I then arced up about the 7 of 8 street residents complaining for 7 months about these farking dogs coming out unsupervised. He says I lawyer , i make trouble with you and proceeds to enter our front gate. Boom comes out with kitchen knife and says you leave our house now. His lady then grabs him back to there place having secured her mutts and we clean Tukky. She has big gash/bite in her stomach. We put something on it and she is whimpering. Woman comes over after telling her drunken German husband to go to bed. The
2 ladies take a shaking Tukky to a dog hospital and return about an hour later. Cost about a hundred bucks which she paid and covered in a massive bandage, Has to return to check. Got home about 1.00 am. I took her for a small walk and she was jumping at shadows. She had a piss and ran back home. She is not a hppy camper as we speak.

He said he will make trouble. I doubt it. I actually walk my dog twice a day, mostly on a lead and the small bar complex near here love her. I am Tukky owner not Ron. Every one in the small street know her. The kids in the next street play with her. The shopkeepers let her walk in and the bar owners let her wander around.

[think positive]

Geezzzzuuussss

Hope Tukky is ok, and your mouth, that�s a �$%$ed up day

[ronrat]