Being busy has caught up with me. Turns out I have high blood pressure. Me! I’m the calm, cool and collected mellow type. Or at least I have been until recently. Lately I’ve been, as the Brits put it, always on the job. Although they might mean something else when they say that: something which can also raise one’s blood pressure (in a good way).
Stress probably has a lot to do with it. From worrying about getting to sleep, to worrying about waking up on time, doofusses in public office and dingbats in the office environment, high prices and low morale, more of us are having trouble taking care of ourselves, and it manifests itself in physical maladies of all sorts. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can show no symptoms at all except when you get a reading at the physician’s office. Over the past year mine has been a bit high, so now that a follow-up has shown no improvement, it’s time to set those resolutions from a week ago into motion to get me pumping normally again.
This won’t mean much of a change in diet for me, as I don’t eat excess salt and watch my carbs and sugar. Medication may help also. I will also have to chill out a bit and remember what it’s like to be Cx3M (calm, cool, collected, mellow) again.
So don’t piss me off.
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