03/03/2009 04:06
I have not fallen off the face of the earth
I've just been super busy...especially at work, where I used to do most of my EPing....don't you just hate it when you actually have to work at work....geez...what is this world coming to???Well I guess I probably have a lot to catch up on.....health wise...the physical therapy is doing wonders...I've been going twice a week plus doing exercises on my own...hip and back are feeling great...but @$35co-pay per session...I'm eating up my FSA...so I think this will be my last week. OK...the dry hacking cough I had....he changed my b/p meds and after about 7-10 days...cough is gone.....but....however.....I decide to see how the new b/p is doing on my b/p.....it's been running about 154/110 +/- 5.....not good....so I call my Dr's office...the clerk was going to take a message for the nurse...but when I told her what my b/p was she put me straight thru...so I tell the nurse the story and i say just ask the Dr if I can take 2 norvasc (go from 5mg to 10 mg)...then we will see what it is on my scheduled appt on Mar 10....she calls back and says he wants to see you today.....so I go...and guess what...he put me on 10 mg Norvasc...I could have saved that co pay too....and I have to take and recorde my b/p twice a day and bring that into him on the 10th. I told him that it was cuz my mil is driving me nuts....and if she wasn't going to take her xanax I would...he thought that was the funniest thing he heard...he says so when she takes her xanax...it calms you down....I wasn't trying to be funny...I was trying to describe the stress....oh well.....less than two week til spring break and a much needed break from here. My research class finished yesterday...and so far I have a 100% average but there still 2 more grades out...I thought the course was pretty easy...but some of the more involved assignments the class average was 88....so that means she wasn't giving 100's out like candy.....but we have a week until the next class starts.
Tiffany is at 16 weeks and is really showing ...but has not gained weight here is her latest blog enteries if you want to see. Blog The latest news there....it looks like Ray may get promoted in that region.....which means they won't move....Tiffany is not happy.....but we won't know for sure until mid May.
Let's see...the latest on the Blake, Molly, Joey side of the family....Blake passed the PT test for Rangers.....and goes for 2 weeks in something intense in April....if he makes it through that...he will have something like a year of officicial Ranger Training....where they go all over and train for all kinds of climates, terains and situations....he is excited...he has always wanted to do some sort of special forces.....and I don't know what kind of BS they told Molly but after the family briefing she was excited too.....me on the other hand not so much...it scares the heck out of me.
OK my big news...I got my Wii Fit.....I've just had it 3 days but it is awesome...I love doing the yoga...but wow it is so much harder keeping your center of gravity balanced.....in class you just sort of do whatever....it is mostly motivating...but I was a little hurt when I did my intial stuff....and my Mii (Wii avatar) got fat....I was like whatever.....but I started thinking this weekend...with the hip pain and back pain gone...and the Wii exercising....I'm thinking the old bod is ready to hit the dusty trail again and start the C25K again...but I'll ask the PT and Ortho Dr.....then start when we get back from our New Mexico road trip.
It will be fun to see it shrinking over time, though.