Tag: medication

Mom’s Update, “Not Bad, Not Great”

Mom’s Update, “Not Bad, Not Great”     I am going to do a first here and try in the shortest possible blog I can, update you on myself as well as mom’s medical status .  Because I’m known for the shortest blog post around, right? The past few days have boomed with medical activity in…

Yet Another Update

I have been off-line for a few days with a minor stomach bug and just yesterday felt up to taking mom to her Cardiologist and Pace Maker check up appointments  down at Travis AFB a 105 minute trip which includes picking her up, then last night I had a friendly neighborhood virus attack my PC and…

What to do now?

I don’t know, “What to do?”  I have Edema or as the Medicine.net medical dictionary defines it, “Edema: The swelling of soft tissues as a result of excess fluid accumulation. Edema is often most prominent in the lower legs and feet toward the end of the day because fluid pools while people keep up an…

Side Effects of Minimal Sleep

 I recently wrote a blog pertaining to sleep and how much is really needed.  In this blog posting I’m going to try and cover, “The Side Effects of Minimal Sleep.”  More to the point, what happens to us, our judgement, reaction time, etc. when we do not have a quality, full nights sleep and better yet…

First trip to the doctors this year.

Here we are in 2014, it is only the sixth and we are all ready going to the doctor’s, luckily (in its own way) it is for a standard cardiology check up, oh and its 1 hour and 45 minutes each way for me, all for maybe a 20 minute appointment, another 20 for labs…