Monday, May 18, 2009

I am concerned

I have been keeping a diary for the last week or so of my blood pressure. When I take my blood pressure in the morning right out of bed I am running a ball park of of 180/110 with a pulse in the upper 50's range. When I go about my normal day, no excitement, nothing to really piss me off my BP shoots up to 250ish/140 with a pulse of mid to upper 70s. This is wrong for my continued existence. One of the things that I see is different in morning and evening is that I have not had any coffee yet, here comes the biggy, no cigarettes. So I am trying an experiment in living to a ripe older age. I know , I know I am already old to most of you and can be pretty ripe but PPPHHHHHPPPPPPHHHTTTTT!!!!! (to quote bill the cat). I have not had a smoke this morning (its 8:30, so far so good) I have started drinking Decaf(yuk phewy), and I walked for a bit this morning(about 20 minutes including that big ass hill here in the apartments). Sweating like a women of ill repute in a place of Christian worship, and my heart pounding like a nervous virgin in her wedding bed (not that I have ANY experience with women in church OR virgins) but my BP was at 183/102 actually 4 points below what it was when I got up this morning.


Thanks friends for letting me poor out what I am concerned about.

































































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