@Robert - Thanks for the long note! I appreciate the thought and interest. Things are a bit better, although I am on lots of medication. Hopefully with some changes in lifestyle and such I can reduce some of that. I really don’t want to be dependent on drugs to keep my system regulated. I have to for now, but I am determined to change that.

And again, thanks all for reading and staying with me while I was away “adjusting” to my meds.

I am new to your blog, but I couldn’t help but take an interest in your post about the blood pressure. I was diagnosed several years ago with high blood pressure. In fact, at the time, I was a walking stroke with a reading in the emergency room of 212 / 110 with a pulse always over 100. I smoked and drank and carried on like I was a teenager on his way to hell. I ate what I pleased and weighed in over 200 pounds. The real problem was that I was in my middle 50’s then. My doctor shook his head and I think he didn’t expect to collect on his bill.

Well, needless to say I had to change that real fast. My wife found me in bed at one in the morning and I hadn’t been breathing for god knows how long. I was taken to the intensive care unit where I remained for 11 days. I was diagnosed with all kinds of diseases, C.O.P.D. in the lungs, artery blockages (I had a by pass on my right leg performed 2 months later) and of all things, high blood pressure which requires 3 medications per day. I began walking a treadmill daily, much to my dismay, lost some weight when I quit drinking, and quit smoking. Today I am much healthier, but I still have the high blood pressure, which is with me for life.

The reason I am writing so much about this is that I hope you take your high blood pressure seriously. It’s a killer. A lot of guys don’t, and they are no longer with us. I want to read your blog for many, many more years.

Sorry about the length, but thought it important. I’ll be back for more of your blog, I like it and your easy style of writing.

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The doctor said that basically I am an overstressed wacko. Blood pressure, with medication, was 148 / 92. So she is putting me on more medication. And an anti-depressant / anti-anxiety drug. Said it sounds like I am having anxiety attacks. And that my sarcasm is no longer softened by humor. I think I said something sarcastic then….

Seriously though, I am now on lots more meds and should be a zombie soon.

Hope all goes well and the doctor doesn’t have to prescribe any drastic lifestyle changes. Feel better.

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