lower my blood pressure

First day back at work from vacation; my train was delayed because of a “mechanical problem”, my stomach is urpy from a too-late-night dinner, and CNN is nattering in the background about something or another. Time to put on the soundtrack to Cosmos and drown out the world for a bit.

When the nurse took it, it was 150/104…when the doctor took it, it was 138/82. And that’s after being off the meds for 24 hours (I’d just run out of my pills). So it is going down, slowly.

...when I got out one of my pills to take yesterday, went to the kitchen to get a glass of water to take it with – and came back to find that the cat ate my pill! Fortunately, after a panicked call to the vet, it turns out he would just be a bit woozy for a while, but that’s it, and he’s fine today.

I was all prepared for the bad news at the doctor’s yesterday. Instead, I was told it was…128/90. Hey, not bad! The last time they took it, the meter lit up “TILT” and warning lights and sirens went off. :-)

Swizzling coffee like a maniac today. Not a recommended way to accomplish this goal, but I do have to stay awake.

Had a nice lunch, but it was loaded with barbeque sauce. Lots of sodium there.

Hopefully by posting this as a reminder, I’ll not do that again.