Do you know your BMI? I do.
Body mass index, and for years I was 19.0, just right, and then a dx of first hypothyroid and then Multiple sclerosis, did me in and in it went out of sight, over 36, now I am about a 25. Which is heavy, 30 is obese, 24.9 is not heavy nor obese! I had gained 112 pounds due to being overheated and exacerbating the MS and balance issues even then compromising my ability to exercise after being a gym rat for a few years and weighing 103, yes five days a week for an hour and a half each and every day... although for most of my adult life I weighed 103 without having to do anything to maintain it... then all hell broke loose, and weight gain ensued. Even after I had sleeve surgery the high protein diet caused kidney problems, so to date, I have lost only seventy of my 112 pounds gained!
So one can only well imagine when a doctor's office gets my weight completely wrong!
Especially, a cardiologist's office and they cannot weigh me due to my being in a motorized wheelchair. And those fourteen to eighteen pound some reason two different weights four pounds apart, added into my info takes me from just being slightly overweight to being OBESE in a cardiologist's office!!!
So I tried to send them a friendly message in their portal that I recently gained access to, and that was not allowing me to, and so I called and spoke to their receptionist, who assured me she would take care of it! I tried when I received my echocardiogram the other day and it had my height and weight on it, the nurse insisted it did not! Sure enough, when I got home I checked, and it did.
Now some would ask why all the hoopla, well, my not too well versed in medicine peep, the weight differential is the difference between being a cardiac risk or NOT being one! Obesity is definitely a cause for suspicion of an issue!
While being slightly overweight is not as likely unless hereditarily or if a smoker or doing other abuses to your body!
So to me, it was VERY IMPORTANT!!!
I do have heart disease in the family but on the male side, my first cousin, my uncle, and my grandpa, but all on my mother's side of the family! My mother did not have heart disease but died of a stroke due to high cholesterol, yes, I suppose that is heart disease, and hereditary. I am on two cholesterol medications simvastatin and fenofibrate. Oh well...
But who knows, I am heart healthy according to this doctor!
Moving on...
Yesterday, I went to my dermatologist, and it was determined that I do in fact have a pressure sore, where the pain is coming from.
So she did have samples of a medication that is similar to the one she has ordered now 9 tubes from Humana, three in a couple of days, and six more after that.
And another one to put over it from Amazon called Vanicream that should be arriving tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the pain continues, at least I did not need surgery.
Pressure sores are not something to mess with, you can die from them!
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bed-sores/symptoms-causes/syc-20355893
Moving on...
My neurologist cares for my Multiple sclerosis, spastic paresthesias, and now BPPV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo, which has the anti-vertigo new medication and it takes time to work.
And sometimes, when I am on its third dosage, I cannot keep my eyes open since it also has an antihistamine in it!
The direction says to take three times a day when needed...and unfortunately, I have only not taken the three dosages once since I have had it. I tried again to take it only twice but then I found myself on a literal sensation of a roller coaster ride!
So three it is, with drowsiness included! I hope mine is the temporary type.
Good thing I don't drive a car anymore.
And so we must go for now...
I am called Aussie, because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me, in the crate at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. And without hesitation, the teenager had said, Aussie! She was just looking, by the way,... so Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though,...some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. Here is an interesting factoid, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but...as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though tipping the scales around seventy pounds, HA! I must admit, a very big one!
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. Below is my new PIC that had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, his brother's birthday.
Please don't forget me, I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven most days, even later! I enjoy a good tug-of-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted, on January 23, 2020.
I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening?
Now my name of Chance is because I was given another chance, it could be only the second one or perhaps more... The animal control lady came out to see if I had a chip with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me, I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!
Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!
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