Heh. The AD I tried gave me an allergic reaction right before the election. I'm still dithering over what the next course is to take. I may ask my doctor to put me back on Lexapro, because I know it worked. Maybe since I'm in therapy now, I won't need to stay on it as long as I did last time, and it won't screw with my memory.
Also, I was kind of stupid about my blood pressure. When I went off Lexapro in March or April, my blood pressure dropped like a rock, so I went off my BP meds. Over time, my BP stayed normal for the first time in a long time.
But when I've gone to my doctor, my BP has been high. I told my doctor that it's normal on the BP monitor we have at home, and I even make Tim take his BP with it so that I know the monitor isn't broken. So he concluded that I have white-coat hypertension, even though I've never had it before, and it was all good.
But I've been getting a lot of tension, back-of-the-head, non-migraine headaches (though not everyone with hypertension has any symptoms at all). So it finally occurred to me LAST NIGHT to take my BP. Which was, in fact, SO HIGH (okay, only 145/98, which isn't remotely close to a stroke risk) (but it's still too high). And I even made Tim take his BP just so I could confirm the monitor was working.
Fortunately I still have the BP meds from when I stopped taking them, so I took 1/2 this morning (I honestly can't remember if I have to titrate back up to the last dose I was on). And when I checked my BP around noon, it was in that hazy area of "above normal but below OH MY GOD CALL 911 NOW." So I may have prevented a stroke. Woo, me.
Damn Steph, that is scary. Glad you listened to you body and caught it.
In Frankie news, peed in my room. Either two big pees, or one epic one. I've been treating him as soon as he pees outside. I'll give it a little longer but I may be buying a crate this weekend. It didn't go well the first time I tried to crate train him.
smonster, I can't remember if you already said -- have you taken Frankie to the vet to make sure he doesn't have a UTI?
I did. He doesn't. And actually, his urine was a little concentrated, so I don't want to deprive him of water during the day.
Groupon has a deal on puppy pads, if that might be useful?
Once my mother was carrying my sister on her hip and turned too sharply just as Sarah wiggled... smacked her head on the door frame.
She's fine.
Plus when ltc is a little older, she will have all sorts of falls out running into things.
I started listing all the times my kids fell out of bed as babies, or were walked into walls holding my hand as toddlers, but frankly, there's too many to count. So far, both are reading 2+ grade levels above their age, with equivalent vocabulary and rhetorical talents to boot. (It's honestly a little intimidating having 2 kids that much smarter than me. Maybe I should have dropped them more often to even the playing field.)
(KIDDING.)
(MOSTLY.)
As if we weren't broken enough. My poor DH is just a big sobbing mess because he ran over our adopted old blind cat. He didn't see her (obviously) and he is just so upset. All the sadness is just too much. My heart breaks for him, and poor Penny who at least had a few months of care and love.
Oh, Laura, how terrible. Your poor DH.
