What a difference a day makes in KS weather. It has been cold and windy today. The sun has left for a week’s vacation and the prairie has been cloudy all day. It was cold doing chicken chores this afternoon. Come on spring – I need you bad!
Went into Emporia for a shift doing taxes this morning. Finished up by 11:15. Went to Bruff’s for a veggie burger minus the bun. After lunch I walked around Walmart killing time. Didn’t find a thing I needed to buy.
Went to my 1:15 doctor’s appointment. My blood pressure was 100/60 in his office today. I’m not sure I agree with his treatment plan. He originally was going to cut my blood pressure medication dose in half. When he found out insurance doesn’t cover the lower dose he decided instead to change my medication from the one that contains a mild diuretic to one that doesn’t and keep the dose at 50. He wants me to come back in three weeks and he will run some labs and then decide if what he wants me to try is working.
I told him I had quit taking my triglyceride medication due to leg and foot cramps. I went off of it for two weeks and the cramps disappeared. When I started taking it again they came back. He told me he didn’t think the medication had anything to do with it. Ummm……
Some days my doctor is curious and does a good job of listening and hearing what I have to say. Some days he doesn’t and today seemed to be a day where he couldn’t hear me. I am going to follow his advice with the blood pressure medication and see what happens. I’ll take my blood pressure several times a day and record the results. If it continues to stay too low I will go to plan B – whatever that is. I’m going to wait to restart the triglyceride medication until we get my blood pressure situation resolved.
Stopped at CVS to pick up the new prescription. When I got there they told me it would take an hour before the medication would be ready. I told the clerk I lived 30 minutes away and didn’t want to have to go home and then come back to town to get it. She rolled her eyes at me and said she would attempt to expedite it for me. 30 minutes later they had it ready. They only had one customer in that time.
Starting to think I may be getting a UTI again. It seems to come and go though so not sure what is going on. It feels a bit like it did when I had a kidney stone years ago although I don’t have any pain in my lower back. Ummmmm….. I’ll go to ER if it gets worse. It didn’t start bothering me until after I left the doctor’s office today.
Feeling a bit vulnerable and uncomfortable this evening. One disadvantage to living alone is when you don’t feel good and don’t have a backup close. Think I will take a bath and go to bed and feel better in the morning.
Tomorrow a Pioneer Bluff’s committee is meeting at my house at 2:00. Then at 5:00 I am working another tax preparation shift. Thursday is an empty space day for me – I will look forward to that. I won’t have another empty space day until March 15.
I’ll need to clean house a bit in the morning to get it ready for the committee members that will be coming at 2:00. I want to bake some cookies so I have something to serve them. I forgot to pick something up at the grocery store today.
The forecast is now calling for snow this weekend. Yuck! We have had enough snow this winter as far as I am concerned. It it to get below zero Sunday night. Spring where are you? Please come soon! My soul needs you!!!
Sitting in the muck pond tonight. I’m going to go take a bath and remind myself to enjoy the muck for a bit and then rise up and walk out of it. And this too will pass……
Grateful for being able to complete four tax returns today, grateful for knowing about the muck pond and how to rise up out of it rather quickly (I used to live in the muck pond), and grateful that this day is almost over and a new day will be here very soon.