Climbing
As we are climbing Jacob’s Ladder for grace, so is the temperature climbing towards being reasonable.
It helps to no end when the sun shines. It would be brighter in our home if I had gotten the windows washed before this glitch of cold and snow. I am not writing off the season just yet.
Today was my annual checkup with our family doctor. Where did that year go? The clinic was really backed up so most of my mid-morning turned into an early afternoon. It has been decided that I will begin physical therapy Monday morning. I say hamstrings, the doctor says it’s my back. We will let Mike T. decide on Monday. We are officially done with all the grunt work around here. It might be a good idea to get the rest of the story rather than depending on Alive Gel caps. They can be hard on the liver. Lisinopril for high blood pressure is also hard on the liver. I was sent to the lab for blood draws to make sure my Potassium level was in mid-range as that protects the liver.
I don’t think I was home for three hours before I had notification that my lab test results were ready for me to see on our patient portal. All levels that can be read, and there are a lot of them, were in mid-level. The only level that shocked me was the Triglycerides. I have never been as low as “88” . . . ever! Anything under 150 is acceptable. Fat in the blood is not a good thing at my age. They called it hardening of the arteries when the Triglycerides are high and stayed high. I hear and see that as a possibility of pending dementia. Often in days of old when family members had indications of “falling off the rails” the words . . . hardening of the arteries was mentioned.
Both Dennis and I have had good results from our physicals. My three month blood pressure medication was the highest it has ever been: $5.64 for three months. No, that is not unreasonable, but it has been less than $3.00 for forever. On the other hand, I was given a prescription for Tramadol, an opioid, for the time it takes to get the physical therapy showing success and that was 29 pills for $.94. Let’s be clear . . . that would be the last pill I would reach for. I am not into having to have a “fix” when I know I can tough it out. I have also put the bottle out of harms way as Dennis is more prone to take a pill to fix something than I am.
News Flash: Tomorrow there will be no blog post. We are making a trip up north to transport the Koi to my sister-in-laws for the here-after. She has the setup with only two Koi remaining of her own. She graciously is adopting our five. With a 50 gallon horse tank in the back of the pickup sloshing around five Koi, we will be traveling carefully.