This has nothing to with Mike turning 65 today! LOL

For a few years of blogging whenever I spoke about my age I always said "old(er) " and then one day I realized
I was old not old(er). Was it about the time 'gadgets' entered my life
and I am not talking about things like Ipads, cellphones, etc., as they
still haven't entered my life! After my aorta valve replacement
operation I had to take my blood pressure every morning
until it leveled out and for the past 2 years it has been 100-110 over
75-80. On Tuesday I went to my primary for my yearly flu shot--which I
couldn't get from him because insurance regulations changed that. In any
case my blood pressure shot up, especially the lower number, which
concerned him. He wanted me to double my Lasix--thanks Doc I don't run
to the bathroom enough?--which is a diuretic--and take my blood pressure
once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once at night and then
average the figures out for the day and as soon as the lower number gets
back in the 70s I could go back to my regular dosage.

So
here I am back to being tied to the monitor. Along with that I take
Warfarin which is a blood thinner basically to prevent blood cots and
reducing risks  of heart attacks and strokes. You usually have to have
your blood tested at the doctor's office a couple of times a month but
over a year ago I was able to get a self home test which meant I didn't
have to go to the doctor at all. Every Thursday I would prick my finger,
take the test and call in the results. By the way one of the side
effects of blood thinners is the following, that they don't tell you
about!

And if you scratch yourself or anything like that it takes some
times two weeks to heal. When I had birds I couldn't have parrots
because their bite could have made me bleed to death. By the way
somewhere here I should add all this happened because of eating 'good',
smoking and other so called 'bad habits--don't believe it!

So here I am taking my blood pressure and PT test plus let's not forget my 'drugstore';

Folks I am not getting old nor am I old(er) I am just old and, in spite of all the above, loving every minute of it!!!

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"The purpose of life is to matter--to count,

to stand for something, to have it make

some difference that we have lived at all."

Leo Rosten 1908-1997 Polish Born American Writer and Humorist.