Medical Messes
Jul. 23rd, 2003 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephoneIf you don't want to know what's wrong with me, don't read this, but I feel I need a bitch-fest.
1) High blood pressure. Since I was 10 & got hit by that really old woman who was driving on a suspended liscense, I've had high b.p. This doesn't bug me, except for the fact that it gave me a lifetime of migraine headaches. And in order to take birth control pills to have some sense of control over my uterus, I have to regulate my b.p. Which means yes, another pill. It's purple. No more migraines, tho, so I'm not exactly complaining. But no matter what I eat or don't eat, no matter how heavy or light I am, I'll always have high bp. Why am I bitchin'? Because the pills are $20 when I have insurance & ridiculously expensive when I don't, & like today, I have to go get the scrip renewed every 3 months, which means driving halfway across town for a 5-min doc appt. Another $10. Frell.
2) My knee is misplaced. I know where it is, it just isn't where it belongs. I'm beginning to feel some affinity w/Hans Christian Anderson's original story of the Little Mermaid - not the toned-down Disney thing, but the older version, the one where, with every step it felt as though she were walking on knives. Part of the reason that I'm thrilled w/becoming nite odditer is that I don't have to stand for at least 30 hrs. of a 40-hr work week anymore. The floors at the hotel are very hard, they need to take pity on all of us who are getting fallen arches, varicose veins, bad knees, etc. & put in some deeper padding. Or give us stools or something.
3) This is irony. For someone who weighs almost 230 lbs., you'd think that my blood sugar & cholesterol would be through the roof. This is where I brag a little - my blood sugar is too low, and my total cholesterol is hovering somewhere around, o, 5. Of course, my hair, skin, nails & emotions are suffering greatly. My latest challenge is to find food that actually raises your cholesterol. My biggest problem with this is that a) I don't like eggs, & b) I don't like greasy fried food. Two doctors hate me. :P
1) High blood pressure. Since I was 10 & got hit by that really old woman who was driving on a suspended liscense, I've had high b.p. This doesn't bug me, except for the fact that it gave me a lifetime of migraine headaches. And in order to take birth control pills to have some sense of control over my uterus, I have to regulate my b.p. Which means yes, another pill. It's purple. No more migraines, tho, so I'm not exactly complaining. But no matter what I eat or don't eat, no matter how heavy or light I am, I'll always have high bp. Why am I bitchin'? Because the pills are $20 when I have insurance & ridiculously expensive when I don't, & like today, I have to go get the scrip renewed every 3 months, which means driving halfway across town for a 5-min doc appt. Another $10. Frell.
2) My knee is misplaced. I know where it is, it just isn't where it belongs. I'm beginning to feel some affinity w/Hans Christian Anderson's original story of the Little Mermaid - not the toned-down Disney thing, but the older version, the one where, with every step it felt as though she were walking on knives. Part of the reason that I'm thrilled w/becoming nite odditer is that I don't have to stand for at least 30 hrs. of a 40-hr work week anymore. The floors at the hotel are very hard, they need to take pity on all of us who are getting fallen arches, varicose veins, bad knees, etc. & put in some deeper padding. Or give us stools or something.
3) This is irony. For someone who weighs almost 230 lbs., you'd think that my blood sugar & cholesterol would be through the roof. This is where I brag a little - my blood sugar is too low, and my total cholesterol is hovering somewhere around, o, 5. Of course, my hair, skin, nails & emotions are suffering greatly. My latest challenge is to find food that actually raises your cholesterol. My biggest problem with this is that a) I don't like eggs, & b) I don't like greasy fried food. Two doctors hate me. :P
