Be warned that store cuffs have often had kids playing with them to the point that they're unreliable, though I'm not sure which way it would be unreliable. My clinic will test blood pressure on a walk-in basis, if there's somewhere you can pop into on the way to work.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2014 3:57:20 pm PDT #10007 of 30002
brillig
quester - Mar 23, 2014 4:16:21 pm PDT #10008 of 30002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
The urgent care place my insurance lists is all the way in the other direction from work, so I'm gong after work.
sj - Mar 23, 2014 4:24:13 pm PDT #10009 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Quester, I hope it is nothing, but going to urgent care tomorrow is probably a good idea.
I just saw someone on facebook spell wrought iron as rawt iron. I think I need to be done with facebook for the night.
Burrell - Mar 23, 2014 6:06:30 pm PDT #10010 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am glad you are going to urgent care, quester. It sounds like high blood pressure to me too.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2014 8:30:57 pm PDT #10011 of 30002
brillig
Hubby has a PET scan tomorrow to see how treatment is going. Symptoms suggest the cancer is fighting back, and since he's tolerating things so "well" they may go for the more aggressive treatment they wanted to do but were afraid to because of his heart. As his cardiologist said, "Hm, fight the cancer now or increase the chances of causing a heart problem I can deal with easily. Get the tougher treatment."
But Hubby is anxious tonight. He copes by investigating what mantle cell lymphoma does, so he's deep in survival rates and odds of it being beaten back and likelihoods of it coming back and how untreatable it will be if it does return. So he's talking about life insurance--a little late in the game to get anything we can afford, I imagine--and he's apologizing for putting me through this and all that.
Not my coping method. I was happily in a state of "he's coping with the treatments well, the doctors are cautiously optimistic, we can do this." I feel like a coward in denial, but I need to be on a little more blindly optimistic train for a while.
Turns out nearly all patients with mantle cell lymphoma have two misplaced chromosomes. He's going to tell his siblings and his daughter to consider getting the blood test to check this. He has a son out there somewhere who I hope doesn't get a genetic surprise one day.
Toddson - Mar 24, 2014 6:52:24 am PDT #10012 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Calli - Mar 24, 2014 6:58:20 am PDT #10013 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I hope the PET scan produces more promising results than expected, Connie.
le nubian - Mar 24, 2014 6:59:19 am PDT #10014 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie,
good wishes for a good PET scan and treatment that your hubby can tolerate okay.
WindSparrow - Mar 24, 2014 7:01:43 am PDT #10015 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Lots of ~ma for your hubby and you, Connie.
Burrell - Mar 24, 2014 7:35:55 am PDT #10016 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Much ~ma to your husband, Connie. I hope his results are good.