Description: A blog about traveling to get the most from the experience.
A few weeks ago I felt off. Really off. The downside of not having been to a doctor in a few years is some things just creep up on you. To be I have had bad luck with doctors. In 2018, the nurse practitioner (not a real doctor. Sort of.) I was seeing told me, with days to go before my first half marathon of the season, that if I ran the half in Carmel, I was going to die. It got in my head. At Carmel, I thought about dropping to the 10k. My name was already printed on the half shirt though, so... with the
So, my health has not been the best over the last few years. And with the last doctor I went to refusing to even give me blood pressure medicine because I wasn't treating my sleep apnea... (I went to try to get an ENT referral because my throat was closing up while I was walking around outside. Not like allergy, but like airway sealing shit and needing to kind of "pop" it back open...) So... he became obsessed with the apnea and then didn't do anything about my BP. (I had a prescription for BP medicine that
Anyways, in the middle of January I was really feeling off, and I knew something was very wrong. Brain fog, pain, issues with standing up and balance, nausea, chest pain, and general ennui. I could barely keep my lesson plans caught up day to day. I had a rare flicker of clarity (barely a flicker at that) and realized I needed to check my blood pressure right then. And... my school didn't have a monitor. I don't know if that is a surprise or not, but I got online and ordered one from Best Buy, picking it up