well, i am now into an era, or if you will period, of some medical tests and what have you. this is indeed all relevant to something of an incident last year (2025, look you see) which kind of changed things for me, for better or worse. no, actually, since i am writing this and you are reading it, presumably for better.
regular readers here (thank you) shall be rather tired, i suspect, of frequent links to it all. instead, then, just the one link (here) to a "year in review" sort of thing, which features many, many links to all that i, although this sounds dramatic, went through. for those wishing a short, executive summary sort of thing existed, well, life choices and what have you have led to a bit of silly bother with my health.
since it seems i feel compelled, if not (overtly) obliged, to give updates here, it was so that fairly recently i went for the first round of some check ups. as to why bother writing all of this, well, i am under no illusion that anyone is all that particularly interested in moi. maybe i do it (so to speak) for myself, for the novelty or humour value, but (that said) if someone out there is going through vaguely similar and all this documentation of it gives them something (i am reticent to say help), nice one.
before going on about the most recent tests, which were not all that significant, i suppose i (really) should write of the most significant update. i got a call from the doctors or what have you. whilst telling me not to worry too much it was so that they had a notion that my heart might fail, or otherwise do something most disagreeable. oh. anyway, they have added some more (further) pills for me to take on a daily basis to hopefully avoid this. been on them for a week and, if i am honest, it took some doing to adjust to them and have the psychology of that sink in.
mostly i appear to have avoided all of the more unpleasant side affects (effects?) of these meds. they certainly disrupted my sleep, at least in the first instance. of the suggested consequences i was partially intrigued by the idea that they "may cause a cough". i was not at all sure how i would determine (or otherwise ascertain) if it was a "new" cough or just the (ahem) natural cough one gets from being a reasonably regular smoker (sorry). identifying mood swings was also a curious thing, for i had no way of knowing how i, or anyone else who(m) is in regular contact with me would know if it was a medication induced mood swing or just my natural way.
getting to, or back to, the ostensible point of this, my most recent tests. just some standard, quasi provisional ones. i get the sense that the weeks ahead shall feature (considerably) more of them, but for now it was just height, weight, blood pressure, heart beat and (as the picture above shows the conclusion of) giving some blood for further tests. yes, of course when they said how much blood was to be taken i did use the classic "that's nearly an armful" line.
for results my height would appear to be a neat or flat 6ft, which is whatever in centimetres. alas the rather dramatic (and discernible) weight loss i had on the go has ceased, and it has crept up a bit. not, that said, near the weight i was before all of this. odd, as i am forever dropping a trouser size (so to speak) and getting a good friend to drill holes in belts. presumably the weight is now residing elsewhere about my body, but all the same i do need to shift some more.
heart rate (or beat, if you like) was there in the first instance, which shall likely be a surprise for those convinced i possessed no such thing. i do, it seems, just maybe not using it as some may have wished i did over the years. oh well. blood pressure (systolic and diastolic, whatever such means) was a trifle high. not in the danger zone (as such), but very much peering at the line. this could, according to the nurse, be due to my body taking on the new meds, with these tests happening 4 (or so) days in to them. also she acknowledged that i was told to stick to my usual routine prior to the tests, so they reflected my day to day, but they had not anticipated me downing a (large) coffee and having a cigarette (sorry) just minutes before my appointment.
that's that for now, then. so yes, i am (indeed) still a going concern. well, at the time when i gone done wrote this, at the least. i mean be reasonable, if you are reading this many (or a few) years from now, i cannot be certain the same would remain true.
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