kyburg | Contents under pressure -

BP? 150/100 in the office today. Yup, today was my annual physical - compounded by the fact I need to get a health certification done for Heartsent.

I'll be going back Tuesday for a TB and urinalysis - and Thursday to get four copies notarized. Ya-hoo.

(Doctor took the BP again after I'd been in the office a while. It went up from there. I may love the man - I've known him 22 years, and I can literally trust him with my life - but I don't like being in his office as a patient. It shows on the lab work.)

However, the weight is stable, albeit too high. I've gotten all the benefit I'm going to get out of the lifestyle change of moving closer to work. I've lost 15-20 lbs. I need 30 more to come off, and I don't think it's going to go without something of an argument. *sigh* I really, really don't like the gym - I get bored easily, and I've yet to meet anyone I'd want to hire as a one-on-one personal trainer. The intake people see my BP and refuse to do anything with me.

I go out with the guys at lunch for "walks" - and if you've ever seen the neighborhood I work in, you know there is no level ground. The guys search out the good hills to get a workout in, using as few blocks of time as they can spare. I know I need more exercise - I can tell by going out with them. That's only a start.

(Today? Today, before I left work, I had five projects appear out of nowhere that will have to be taken up after the holiday, got roped into testing something that Did Not Work and I had to GO NOW to get to the appointment I'd made months ago. Stress, me? Add driving the 405 N on a holiday weekend. Stir and serve with a wedge of lime. Yeah. *snerk*)

You know, I got the documentation beginning of the year. WTF. Enough already. Priority time - six months, and if we don't see improvement in the BP, we're changing meds and I'm not fond of the idea. That also includes taking the stupid BP more often - which, as you might have guessed, I don't fancy. Grr. Genetics suck. (Mom, and her mother both were hypertensive, let alone the train wreck that's my aunt. The cousins also have mentioned a number of issues - one claims NDE due to coronary. Nice, huh?)

So that was my day. Now? Now I have a cup of tea and enjoy the holiday.