At some point last week, umm…Tuesday, I guess it was, I had one of those Big Giant Weird Episodes. Kids were home, blood pressure machine was brought to me in the moment, and I discovered to my utter horror that my blood pressure was way above normal and into the “Oh Wow, I Might Die From This” level of blood pressure. I say “discovered” as if it happened right them, but in the moment numbers meant absolutely nothing to me, I just saw big ones and went “lightbulb!” and moved on with my day, as it was both a piano lesson day and the day that we metaphorically toured the junior high with my eldest son. There will be another post with pictures and meanderings about that subject another day, perhaps later in the week when I’m not tremendously busy with the 12 billion things the school scheduled this week (why do they do it like that?!?!?!).
In any case, I called around and tried to report this info to various doctors the next morning. My primary care doctor was the only one that responded in a timely manner and provided a quick fix, too, so he gets Extra Bonus Awesome points. I followed the program provided, having been following it diligently the last week, and am happy to report that my blood pressure is back in the Land of the Living range. I’ve stopped being tremendously dizzy all the time. I am not nauseated all the time. My Headache of Doom gradually went down to the level of Rather Annoying Daily Occurrence instead of OH MY GOD, MY HEAD. Best of all I’m able to read again.
So I spent three days doing practically nothing besides luxuriating in reading (well, some laundry and dishes) and marveling on the fact that I waited so long to read The Hunger Games trilogy. Greg had pink eye, so he wasn’t feeling up to much either.
To sum up: I am not dead. I am terribly busy. Some day in the future there will be actual updates with pictures again, if I ever find my camera. Woo hoo.
