Friday, September 6, 2013

Back to basics...



Life goes on after discord of any kind, and that is something we all do know.
Just like all things in life conflicts once resolved should be just a fond, well maybe not fond, but a vivid, yep that’s the ticket, a vivid memory of what was.

And so tonight I will start with expressing my latest challenge of the day… As many know since the holiday of Labor Day was last Monday, the rehab was closed as many places of that type are. To maintain my momentum of my exercise routines I had to adjust to only going there twice this week, Wednesday and today. I suppose for many they might have made up an additional day like Tuesday or Thursday, but no, not me.
I get it into my head to do something one way and that is how I will do it, although, in this still not high performance condition probably not the best idea.

Now I do believe why I had a difficult time with the arm cycle today, profuse perspiring, nausea and dizziness after only four minutes in one direction; it could have been attributed to coming from the heat of outside into the building, but our car is also air-conditioned?

Sure it had been hot all summer long, as usual, without this result before… odd, and so after those few minutes I was ready to call it quits, shame on me!

Hubby became the true coach that one could only hope for and said to "take a break and rest and then we will go over to the total gym and for you to do that, and maybe later go back to the arm cycle, okay?"
Maybe not verbatim, but something like that…

Any-who, I drank some of my cool/cold club soda, and rested in a cooler area of the gym it seemed to me, although they do keep the whole place on seventy degrees uniformly.
I know some of you northerners may think that is still too warm, but when it’s in the low nineties outside, seventy inside should feel just right.

The idea worked and I was able to complete my two sets of fifty reps on the total gym and then move over to the overhead light weighted pulls and from there I did finish my arm cycle reps totaling my usual of fifteen minutes of seven and half minutes in either direction! TA DA!

Barring any too incapacitating ills or holidays I have been able to go every week since April 9th, 2013 there! And hopefully, I will be showing some difference in my silhouette, now looking a little too much like Alfred Hitchcock, but with hair, in the near future with the diminishing of my medications as well as the two completely gone, the Gabapentin and the Hydrochlorothiazide. My Lisinopril dose was cut in half and my Baclofen is down this week to forty MG. from seventy! At one time I did have 80MG. individual pills for the Baclofen, which I was able to take as needed and so that is why the Baclofen has not been that big a problem to wean myself off of due to that I suspect. Since the Baclofen and Gabapentin are for my spasms I suppose keeping the Baclofen with me is the best way to handle any that are too severe… it used to work and so I will go with that thought.

While at my internist, Dr Nord’s on Wednesday I was also informed that the exact dose of the Levothyroxine that I am on for my hypothyroid is maintaining my thyroid within the normal range.
The reason that the doctor was iffy about lowering my dosing on the Lisinopril and getting rid of the Hydrochlorothiazide she said that my blood pressure that has been running low normal was the way she felt it should be, but those meds help do that…and concern for my kidneys...but my blood work for them too did not indicate anything to be concerned with...
Thus the more blood work and appointment and monitoring of my blood pressure in three months, but we have had our own blood pressure machine for seven years now. Since it had been recommended for me to get one and then when Hubby acquired his own high blood pressure three years ago, we were able to monitor his too instead of going back and forth to the doctor’s or drug store one… it was less than thirty bucks at Walmart that time and has been calibrated when we’ve taken it in to the doctor’s offices when there for regular appointments.
The blood pressure machine is quite a handy thing to have, really, if you have high blood pressure that you are told to monitor, but don’t get addicted to it, ha; once a day if running a bit high or once a week just to verify.
Too high readings can also be caused by too frequent use causing unnecessary concern.
Voice of experience here, although with Hubby it did enable his medication to be regulated, since his was all over the map, i.e. blood pressure!

All in all I seem to be better than I was last month, and that is what any of us can only wish for… my tummy has been odd though lately could be the readjusting to the lack of some meds, who knows but I mentioned my need for more Pepcid to Dr. Nord; she told me with the Nexium that I should contact my gastro doc and so now I am seeing him next week…I suppose it never ends!
But that’s pretty much the way it is for everyone, true?

On that note of knowing we are not alone, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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