Healthy update
02/11/25 17:33
Remembering I had two strokes on Christmas morning in 2021 - such a pain -, and my continued troublesome high blood pressure which peaked for so long at 249/99, I was put on a trial for a new drug which slowly reduced my blood pressure alongside the stent which was inserted into the dodgy kidney. There is only one left that works a little and I am borderline with the dialysis. However the new drug has done wonders. Pharmacology should be a Nobel Prize - oh wait it is! Last winter Ninewells Hospital/University of Dundee Medical School entered me in a double blind trial which boosted my new drug and now to everyone's surprise I have the blood pressure of 114/78.
Slowly I am getting back to being my old self and energy is picking up, but the retention of fluid is a nightmare and 15Kg of me is just liquid. I have a table to whoosh liquid out, but the wonderful new drug makes me thirsty and I am on lots of tea each day. My Renal Consultant suggests I suck frozen pineapple, so that should help but there are so many delicious soft drinks around to tempt me, and I am easily tempted.
Further to the update below, we decided to put Old Faskally House on the market a year ago and had a few bites before someone decided that they loved it and wanted it. The process dragged on until 13 October. We had put our names down for a new build home, having scoured west Scotland looking, even as far south as Ayrshire. We are now in the new place, which is 8 minutes from George Square and 24 from Glasgow Airport - no more leaving home at 3am to get a plane to Europe to connect with destinations far and wide!
We were in a Tesco the other day which was so large you could have parked two Space Shuttles under its roof. I guess that will be my port of call, although there is a Co-Op nearby for the tomato-free pizza. That is something I developed over the last years was a sensitivity to the skin of the tomato, which caused me to walk with a stick. My goal in retirement was to become a foot model but the damage has been so severe I now look like the "before" rather than the "after".
Slowly I am getting back to being my old self and energy is picking up, but the retention of fluid is a nightmare and 15Kg of me is just liquid. I have a table to whoosh liquid out, but the wonderful new drug makes me thirsty and I am on lots of tea each day. My Renal Consultant suggests I suck frozen pineapple, so that should help but there are so many delicious soft drinks around to tempt me, and I am easily tempted.
Further to the update below, we decided to put Old Faskally House on the market a year ago and had a few bites before someone decided that they loved it and wanted it. The process dragged on until 13 October. We had put our names down for a new build home, having scoured west Scotland looking, even as far south as Ayrshire. We are now in the new place, which is 8 minutes from George Square and 24 from Glasgow Airport - no more leaving home at 3am to get a plane to Europe to connect with destinations far and wide!
We were in a Tesco the other day which was so large you could have parked two Space Shuttles under its roof. I guess that will be my port of call, although there is a Co-Op nearby for the tomato-free pizza. That is something I developed over the last years was a sensitivity to the skin of the tomato, which caused me to walk with a stick. My goal in retirement was to become a foot model but the damage has been so severe I now look like the "before" rather than the "after".