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!