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Twoapenny:

--- Quote from: Hopalong on August 03, 2019, 01:45:07 AM ---Thanks, Lighter.
I'm feeling okay, though less energetic than I'd like.

It hit me this evening that I'm on a big dose of statins after several years off the very low dose I used to take. And that depletes Co Q-10, which I'd forgotten about. I will get back on that tomorrow and stay with it, should help I hope.

Only other issue is the damn itching...eventually the adhesive gets through even the SkinCote, which is essentially liquid vinyl. Ick. I have to swab on two layers of the stuff to tolerate the monitor patch for a day or two, and my skin is miserable beneath it. Welts, and one spot nearly raw. But there's no choice.

Last day to wear it is the 11th...then I mail it all in. No idea how long it takes for the analysis to come in.

I do feel a bit worried about the result. I'm just praying I don't have afib, which would require strong blood thinners for life. Would really like to avoid that, but I'll deal.

Thanks for checking!

Hugs
Hops

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Hops, it does sound very irritating!  It's a long time to have to put up with it - minor discomfort is alright for a few days but longer than that and I find it becomes all I can think about - very annoying!  Do they have to leave it on for so long to see if there are patterns or something like that?  Whatever the reason I will keep my fingers crossed that it's all processed soon and you get the results through.  I find not know the outcome harder to deal with than knowing, even if it's not news I want to hear!  So I hope it's all sorted out soon - and that you get your Co-Q thingy sorted as well! xx xx

sKePTiKal:
Hang in there Hops! Not that many days left now. And it's a lot of data for the doc.

How are things with M? You guys doing some fun stuff?

Meh:
Yeah at least the docs are being thorough.

lighter:
Just keep that monitor dry, and don't stop swimming, Hops.

Whatever happens, it's going to be OK.

Lighter

Hopalong:
Thanks, ((((Lighter)))) -- the damn thing's off me as of yesterday!

Oy, men. M really stepped in it this morning when his morning email included a picture of a bullfight and a totally cerebral explanation of the "crucial role" horses have played in history as "mediators" between the human and animal worlds. He got back a diatribe about how cock fighting, bear baiting and dog fights might have their interpreters as well, how they are "mediators" rather than torture victims, and that bullfighting revolts me at the most profound level and thus I do not care what it symbolises. Ooof. Not nice words for a scholar who deals in the abstract all day but jeez!

I had told him, humorously, at dinner last night how beautiful I find a horse's nostril -- one of the most beautiful things in the world -- soft as velvet, warm, full of sweet oaty breath they'll blow on your cheek. I am a person who ceased riding horses (having loved it for years) when one day I thought about how there was no good reason to subject a horse to me on its back. Light went on, boots went off. But I still adore being near them. Had an amazing experience on college graduation day when I was crushed it was over (four happiest years), went down to the stables, stood by the pasture fence and started sobbing. A horse I didn't even know, way across the field, raised its head, trotted all the way over to me, bent its head and placed its forehead against mine, and stood there stock-still until I was done sobbing. Then went away.

I ain't the right person to send some abstract defense of bullfighting before my caffeine has kicked in! (I'd also told him how when I was 14 in Madrid I was very upset that my father and brother went to the bullfight. I'd refused and stayed in the hotel because I knew what happened to the bull.) I was surprised M went there.

Just rambled through it with my T and got more clarity on how differently we see the world. Fortunately, once you scrape away the scholar there's a sweet heart inside. Whew.

xxoo
Hops

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