I'm Shredding my veins

Life is funny.

I have had high blood pressure for several years. I was having migraines on a reg basis. On one of those days my Husband and I were running errands and had to stop by the local large retailer. They were doing free screenings including for high blood pressure.

Let me back up for a second here. About 7 or so years prior my husband at the age of 28 had a heart attack. He quit smoking, and for a time, started eating better. Needless to say his everything was out of whack.....

So... He challenged me, he said " You need to get your blood pressure checked. I bet mine is better than yours! (He takes meds for his bp)" So of course I'm thinking, ok, your on! Mine is gonna be better than yours AND your on medicine for it!!! HAHAHAHA!!

The woman checked his... then checked mine. She gave me the look. Mine was 140ish over like 98 or 99. Travis had beat me. His was better. She asked if I had a Dr and said you need to get in right away, this is dangerous. So I,m thinking yeah... ok sure.

Later Travis said "You know I bet that is why you are having migraines." I thought, What? I shook my head no. He said please just go to the Dr and have it checked out. so for him I did, and long story short they gave me meds. I took them for a few days and realized that maybe my bp was actually linked to the high bp. but because I don't care to take pills I stopped taking them. Then My aunt had a pretty good stroke. I also starting hearing about other young people having strokes. It mad me rethink. I started taking my pills again.

Well, I ran out and I hate going to the Dr, and hate even more spending money on medications that just don't seem really necessary. So I start having migraines again. I have this stuff called Imitrex for when they get really bad. I don't take it unless I absolutely have too. Actually the last prescription I was given is well over a year ago and there are only 8 pills in the package and I have only taken 4. Yesterday I had one of those migraines. I took Ibuprofen several times. Tried the ice pack thing. I was still hurting and feeling nauseous. So I decided to go ahead and take the Imitrex.

I REALLY dislike taking them. They jack up my neck and jaw, and sometimes mess with what seems like my sinuses for the first hour or so. Eventually it does bring relieve though.

I woke up this morning thinking, "What are you doing Carol? Are you trying to kill your self? Do you want be paralyzed from a stroke? Don't you care about your family more than that?" So I decided that I am going to try to change my blood pressure through exercise and diet. I need to loose about 50 lbs anyway. I hate spending money on medications for something that is caused by my laziness. So today is the day. It's going to be hard. It's cold, it's the Holiday season. I AM going to persevere, AND I'm bringing my husband with me.

Together with God all things are possible.

I will post pictures of us, both start weights and Bp's. (My Bp was 143/105 last night which is what is freaking me out) My husband is also diabetic. (and he is only 37!) Maybe he will eventually be able to get off that medication too.

So send up some prayer for control, strength, and wisdom.

With love,
C

New?

I was just going over my Facebook account. This took me to my old carepages account where I blogged about my run in with cancer. I reread some of the posts, and then read some of the comments. I realized that I used blogging to get things off my chest (no pun intended lol - um thats my own inside joke) and that at the time, I really enjoyed it. So I thought I might start a new blog that didn't center entirely around breast cancer, but just around life in general.

Most the time I find life too funny. There are a lot of times I laugh at inappropriate times. I can't help it if I choose to see the humor in it all. I can't help it if everyone else chooses NOT to see the humor in it all. It matters not... really it doesn't.

I hope that someone laughs, cuz thats really where its all at right?