An early wake up call for this Friday. All 3 girls are here this morning. I got chores done and grabbed a quick breakfast before heading to Asheville for my annual physical at my doctor's office. I should have known better than to schedule anything in Asheville on Friday let alone Friday the 13th !!! First thing: a large tree had fallen across the mountain road I was taking and brought down all the power lines so I had to turn around and take a detour, probably costing me an extra 10 minutes. Thankfully I had left early with a 45 minute window to get there. Second thing: When I turned out onto hwy 25 which leads into Asheville to my doctor it soon became a parking lot. I switched lanes several times and finally saw the lane reduction because of utility work. I finally made it to my doctor only about 10 minutes late which was surprising.
Third thing: With all this stress on the way there ( at least I'm sure hoping that's what it is) my blood pressure was high 140/100 which is very high for my usually low pressure reading. Fourth thing : As I chatted with the doctor and kept waiting for him to ask me to get on the table so he could listen to my lungs and feel around on my stomach as all my doctors have always done it soon became evident to me that he was not going to touch me or check anything. This is the only the second visit to this doctor and the same thing happened last year. I thought last year it was because it was my "welcome to medicare" check up but when it happened again today it left me wondering if folks my age are getting passed over by the medical professionals. Anyway on to my blood pressure issues, they took it again at the end of the appointment and it was still high so I am to monitor it daily for 2 weeks and call with an average to see if I need medicine. He did say that with all my other bloodwork numbers looking so good he did not believe I had an issue. I left there feeling like I had wasted my time if all I needed was to see my bloodwork numbers I could have done that online and saved me a raised blood pressure. I fought very heavy traffic leaving Asheville , stopped for gas , picked up lunches and made it home safely thanks to God's protective hand. I took my pressure at home before I ate lunch and it was 131/82 which is much better. Re is going to bring her checker over on Sunday and see if it matches my readings because my checker is pretty old. After lunch I gave hubbie a break and let CA take a nap inside while I took these two outside to play. They are matching today with matching popsicles and smiles !
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