Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
No, it wasn't, honestly!! You've driven on icy roads and not been in any accidents, ergo, you have got to give yourself a pat on the back.
Considering how long I drove my '85 STE with rusted thru engine mounts I am the last one to scold anyone! LSA
Hmmm....rusted engine mounts....busted tie rods....and here I am getting antsy because my low coolant warning light blinked on.
Heh, I’m just finishing my only cup of coffee, too. I’m not cutting down on caffeine, though we’ve been doing half-caf for along time anyway. I only drink one because they put me on liquid restriction when I left the hospital. I haven’t been too good at it, though I’m drinking about half the water I did before all this happened. I’m supposed to be at about a liter a day; no way I can do that! I’m maybe doing a liter and a half, and that includes the couple of glasses of water I need to take my meds, though the nurse in the hospital said those can be in addition to the liquids allowed.
Well...I’m still thinking I deserved a bit of a scolding. ;-)
The funny thing (well...not so funny, but...) is that now that the steering and all *works*, I’m struggling not to overcompensate!
But I made it to work OK. And it really does feel much nicer to drive.
I’d probably pay more attention to lights! If I can’t see it, I can put it off more easily...
Well, good!
I have a headache for the third day in a row...
I haven’t had a cold or anything, or I’d think sinus. Pressure around my nose and eyeballs.
I think I just need to relax...
Glad it sounds like you’re recovering, 2J. We were worried about you!
...and then I start wondering if I really do smell anti-freeze on a hot engine block. So I pop the hood and see that the coolant level is just a smidgen below the full line.
Now that, I'd investigate! It should be warm enough at noon to check and add coolant if necessary. I'm trying to remember what went wrong with the STE when we kept adding coolant and it kept draining through into the passenger's side floorboard, but I'm drawing a blank. Probably nothing you have to worry about since your car is so much newer than the STE was.
Oops, I see you already did!
#3631 was meant for you. LSA
Just checked my BP and it’s 116/86 in my high arm, which is lovely and 100/60 in my low arm...which is really LOW! Pulse rate is 56 beats per minute...so I’m going really really slow.
I told Matthew, so in case I faint from too low a pressure.
They check my right arm arteries tomorrow to see if there is a reason the BP is always so much higher than the left.
Heh...I was thinking a leak or busted hose somewhere and I didn’t have spare antifreeze in the trunk or my roll of duct tape. Guess I’ll have to fix that situation.
That low is about what your norm used to be, though, isn’t it?
I haven’t had my pressure measured in a long time...in the military when they did fairly routine checkups, it was almost always around 100/60. Sometimes as high as 110/70 or so, but usually lower. I’m betting it’s higher now since I’m not as active or as skinny as I once was (*sigh*), but I don’t think that’s super low if it’s someone’s normal range, right?
But that is a very slow pulse. :-\ Just...take care of yourself, OK? Be pushy with the docs and all if you need to be!
What test do they use to check your arteries?
An ultrasound. Just like the kind that looks at babies before they’re born. They’ll look at the insides of my arteries to see if there are any narrow spots.
That is my last test. I don’t know what they’ll do if they find anything because it won’t change the fact that I have high blood pressure. The day it was 200/122 in that arm, it was 180/110 in my other arm.
But I wonder if they’ll treat the pressure in my low arm and possibly take the high arm with a grain of salt? I don’t know.
Heh...Matthew just told me to get the car and drive through some school zones. He said that would raise my blood pressure.
Maybe you should just lean the other way and even the arms out.
Sounds like a blown heater core.
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