I've been tracking it. Twenty-nine (according to the weather app) is the pressure when I consider taking the melon baller to my eyeball. I don't actually own a melon baller and that's probably for the best.
It's Guy Fawkes day. Remember remember the fifth of November -- and all that. It wasn't the worst coup attempt. I mean, I'm sure there were plans even less thought out plots that didn't even fail just fizzled so no one noticed, history didn't notice. But, daaaaamn, the Gunpowder Plot was just a pile of poor decisions.
I wore my Fawkes hat (handmade out of scrapbooking paper) at work. (A Guy Fawkes mask is hard to work in and it's been co-opted by Anonymous anyway.) I was complimented on my pilgrim hat and told I don't look like a witch. Look, I know Guy Fawkes isn't a thing here in the US. But it's still history, dammit.
And it just makes sense to think about blowing up parliament at election time.
My blood pressure was still high, tho better, at yesterday's check. So my doctor called in a prescription for a blood pressure med. Bad side effects I need to watch out for: dizziness, excessive thirst, excessive urination, dry mouth, fatigue, muscle cramps, confusion.
So I know "possible side effects" does not equal "probable side effects" and there's no reason to expect I'll experience any of these, but they just described my normal day.
Remember the thing about the pressure and the melon baller from way up in the first paragraph? So, yeah, a regular cocktail of naproxen, decongestant, and nasal spray is the only thing keeping me even sort of functioning. I couldn't find a definitive answer online, but I know in general bp meds and nsaids can't play nice together. And bp meds and cheap-a%% generic decongestants really don't get along. I've never heard of bp meds having beef with basic saline nasal spray, but that's just one out of three and I don't like those odds. So I'm going to be a bad patient and not start the new med until I'm not relying on the cocktail to keep my skull from exploding.
Maybe when I have a few days off in a row at Thanksgiving. Then I can get used to any dizziness, deal with a rash, etc.
Oh yeah, there's a chance I'll be allergic to the new med because some people who are allergic to sulfa meds are also allergic to this. Not everyone, not even most people. But I do get a rash with sulfa antibiotics, so, yeah . . .
Anyway, if you're planning a crazy destructive act of sedition, maybe study the history of epic fails like the Gunpowder Plot.
p.s. Follow up to yesterday's "do I have a gas leak" drama. It was definitely the burner know somehow (remember, this means the cat did it) getting bumped. There's been no new amost-odors since and I successfully cooked without blowing up the house.
p.p.s. I didn't plan it, but today's post theme seems to be explosions.
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