doctor appointment//prick test//blood test results//dinner at k's//waffles with j

 
overly eventful day.  went to the doctor who referred me to another doctor.  wow.  I really need to go on a diet.  I told her since I went off statins I feel fine.  my regular doctor is ill again and in the hospital.  he was in the hospital for hemorrhaging last year.  he said it was from advil and switched to gel cap advil and had all his patients go off of advil.  he was freaked over it.  r seems nervous.  hope he is okay.  he is the one who is also in wine group.  I'm almost adjusting to this illness thing.  every time you turn around its either yourself or someone around you.  people should be FORCED to take any level of medical classes after age 40 both to help out and so they will know what is going on an their bodies begin to deteriorate, which is what that is.  after 40 we are all on borrowed time, its a matter of facing it.  for some its earlier.  much earlier.  and for others its later.  but medically/internally it starts at age 40.  medical fact.  one of those things they have you memorize and you think nothing of it until it starts happening. 
so, I have to go back and give more blood.  yuck.  and they prick tested it again and my hemoglobin is still low.  it will take six months to build it back up if all it is is a side effect of statins and/or diet.  she is ORDERING me to eat red meat daily along with oranges, iron pills, vitamin c, green veggies and little to no sugar.  she says something is wrong.  personally, I think its a side effect of statins and from switching to aspirin without buffer.  I'm down to low dose and she isn't really for that either.  I would rather talk to jon, as he is my normal doctor but right now its impossible.  I feel better without statins.  I am resting more, it says to.  I also think this weight thing is part of the reason.  need to do more research.  weight will kill you.  all that weight pressing against your organs.  amazing the organs continue functioning at all. 
still raining all the time and expecting more rain.  I'm reading brooke's memoir.  she write fabulous.  shocked at all the smutty stuff from her relatives.  would never have guessed at all.  people's families are always so screwy, its easier not to ask at all.  l's aunt died.  a favorite aunt and the only aunt she was in touch with.  her father's sister.  another surprise.  her single uncle.  her single aunt until much later when she did marry.  then her and her sisters.  then her sisters, no kids except the ones she had.  its like history repeating itself.  every time that happens in my own life and I realize there is a pattern or a repeat, it amazes me.  I think we keep attracting whatever is familiar even if that something is bad, because it is common to us (usual at present, is the definition of normal, even if that usual is bad) so the result is the same anyway.  since my account was hacked I can't find certain photos that I liked.  memorial parades and girl scout groupings.  have to see if anything from Maryland is there.  but I couldn't even find the ones from phili and it was one of my favorite sites.  grrrr.  were those groups hacked or what?  a lot of people have quit facebook because it can get you in so much trouble.  a says he's afraid of it and has too much to lose going on there and saying something he shouldn't.  so use a different name and say what you want and then it shouldn't be traceable I would think?
I'm writing this at k's.  its around 4 a.m.  had dinner after the doctor.  salmon.  yum and veggies.  rum and cokes with vanilla which was excellent.  chocolate cake and coffee.  went out for waffles with j earlier and also had to go to my office unexpected because one of the guys couldn't be there.  what a day.  wrong day for all of that because it made my blood pressure go up.  I knew it would, even with a nap in between, too much stress on a normal day wouldn't matter much.  I'm trying to unwind it now.