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13 comments:
Happy, Happy Hump Day! Wheeeeeeeeeee..........
Scheduling conflict - The poppy would have been perfect for Memorial day... but, it wasn't blooming then!
Pretty poppy. As we all know Mother Nature has her own schedule.
I'm back from another eye treatment. It's always something when you suddenly find out you're not a spring chicken any more. But, the alternative isn't too attractive either. I'd rather stay on the green side of the grass rather than on the wormy side... even if I can't see it worth a damn anymore. ☺
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Mr. Ed said...
Happy, Happy Hump Day! Wheeeeeeeeeee..........
1:02 AM
Mr. Ed said...
Scheduling conflict - The poppy would have been perfect for Memorial day... but, it wasn't blooming then!
1:26 AM
mariposa said...
Pretty poppy. As we all know Mother Nature has her own schedule.
6:09 AM
Mr. Ed said...
I'm back from another eye treatment. It's always something when you suddenly find out you're not a spring chicken any more. But, the alternative isn't too attractive either. I'd rather stay on the green side of the grass rather than on the wormy side... even if I can't see it worth a damn anymore. ☺
2:23 PM
Mr. Ed said...
Carol - When I wrote yesterday about my aorta, I forgot about the aneurism that burst in my left eye. That one was definitely a blowout but it was limited to only flooding the retina before it ran out of anyplace for the flow to go.
Mr Ed,
First, how did you get that beautiful Oriental poppy to grow? I've tried at least 6 or 7 times with seed and no luck. I love the red ones!!
I forgot about your eye too. Hope you are steadily improving, both heart and eye-wise.
Those aneurism's are scary things and can happen to anyone/anytime. I read up on the brain ones and those are usually (but not always) a genetic malformation, happening more to mend and sometimes can take years and years before they burst. Some people are fortunate and have symptoms and the aneurism is found via MRI and can be dealt with before it 'deals' with them.
I meant to say "happening more to MEN"
Carol - All my aneurism problems are due to years and years of having extremely high blood pressure. My cholesterol & everything else has always been great. I have absolutely NO history of any type of heart problem.
I was diagnosed with acute hypertension when I was in my mid 20s but as long as the BP was fairly good when I would go in for a checkup, nothing was ever done. I was never given meds for BP until I blew out the aorta. Now my BP target is 130/80 or below & I monitor it regularly. They cannot check every artery in my body to see where wall damage has occured so they just feed me a couple dozen pills a day to keep it controlled. It's not ideal and the eye artery rupture happened anyway. But, it's all I've got. It just means that every six hours I take mix of pills. I can usually tell when the BP is up for some reason & I can take additional meds in between times to control it.
The bottom line is that the old method of just sitting quietly until the pressure comes down is like playing russian roulette with a fully loaded gun. It gives you a brief timeout but it doesn't solve the problem. And, that's the way they treated mine for thirty five years.
Carol - I forgot to answer your question about the poppies... I have a very good friend who is an Oregon State University Master Gardener. If she can't make something grow it's because it's already dead. She planted my poppy plants several years ago and I haven't touched them since. I'm not about to mess with success! I don't know if they are annuals that just reseed themselves or if they're perennials. They just always show up right on schedule every year. Come to think of it, they have to be perennial because their positions never change and they haven't spread. I'll ask the next time I see her. ☺
Mr Ed, wow, just sitting quietly was the suggestion??? I think I'd have asked for another Dr. High B/P is really dangerous left untreated. If it cannot be controlled by diet/exercise it has to be by meds.
It's just not worth the risk to do otherwise. It's especially bad to have it start when you are young. Joe's older brother died as a result of just that, his was left untreated because he refused to go to a Dr. His heart finally gave out when he was only 57. Such a shame as it was avoidable.
Carol - They looked at BP differently a few years ago. It's only been the last few that they have found out how dangerous it it. In all the years, I was never given anything but diuretics and told to cut down on salt. For years I passed my flight and racing physicals by sitting or lying quietly in a doctor's office until the BP came down to a reasonable level. All they wanted to do was see an acceptible number... and I didn't know any better. If I could get below 90, they were okay withit.
I have been on a mild diuretic for several years...but I have a B/P machine and check it regularly. Just a few months ago, I noticed that my B/P was always higher than it should be so I made a Dr appt. He put me on an additional med and also checked my machine against theirs. It turned out that our machine was 10 points higher on the SYS so that was good news for me. With the additional med my numbers are just fine.
Resting B/P is fine if its low but if its still high when resting, that's not good. B/P goes up and down all day but if you are high to start and then do exercise, that is a dangerous situation.
Carol - I also have a BP cuff & mine is very accurate. But, I don't remember what the meds are that I'm taking now. I know there's a couple of blockers and one to control my pulse. And, there's one little pink tablet that is a direct controller of BP. That's the one I have the discretion to increase or decrease dosage if my numbers fluctuate. All together I take ten different meds in different dosages every six hours. That keeps my BP pretty constant in my target zone. When I first wake up in the morning, before I even get out of bed, I take my BP to establish a constant baseline. That reading is normally at or below 120/60 with a pulse in the 40to 50 range. Some mornings it's as low as 100/40 but I don't have low pressure circulation problems because it comes up when I'm active. It's all a royal pain in the butt but necessary. I was on a collision course with congestive heart failure before all this happened. I didn't know it but my heart was fairly enlarged when the aorta split. But, thanks to my cardio-quacks it has gradually gotten back to where it's normal size now. Living better through CHEMISTRY! I bitch about them but I owe them a LOT!
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