take care of my health

Well, I’m medicated for the things I need to be medicated for, consulting with doctors routinely, my cholesterol is well within acceptable ranges, my blood pressure is borderline but actually seems to be getting better, and I’m paying more (though admittedly insufficient) attention to what I eat. I’m procrastinating on the surgery that I need for my knee, even though it’s a simple outpatient procedure that I probably wouldn’t even have to miss work for … but if I can just get myself to go through with that, I might even be able to do something completely insane like exercise every so often.

Well, I got scared in to doing this, and the truth is I’m kind of glad. Granted I’m on several medications now, and I have routine bloodwork, and I might be going in for surgery on my knee if it doesn’t shape up under the current treatments, so it’s kind of an investment of time and energy (and money! oy), but on the whole I think it’s the right thing to do. Now if I can just change a few of my personal habits to improve my overall health, I’ll be doing great.