blood pressure

Not Optimal Weight

July 16, 2011

I had a regularly scheduled doctor’s appointment yesterday.  Every couple of months Dr Lisa likes me to come in and make sure that I’m still alive.  This was one of those checkups.  As soon as she walked through the door and asked me how I was, I replied honestly… “I’m falling apart.  Physically… I’m just [...]

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A Visit With Dr. Lisa

March 18, 2011

I had my regularly scheduled appointment this afternoon with my family doctor.  I’ve mentioned her before… Lisa is awesome. The first thing I had to do when I got there was step onto the scale.  That was new.  Something tells me that she`s going to be getting me to do that more often.  Then we [...]

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Overcoming the Blahs

December 18, 2010

I had an interesting talk with the Dr this week.  I told her that I failed my blood pressure check again the day before.  174/105 I think it was when I went in to donate.  The 174 was high, but still below the acceptable level (180) but the 105 needed to be below 100.  They [...]

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They Finally Took My Blood!

November 5, 2010

I’d never given blood before, but after a period of soul searching, I decided to try to start doing some more positive things in my life.  Something supposedly simple (yet very important) on that list was to start donating blood.  So I called that number that has been drilled into my head for years… 1-800-2DONATE [...]

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