Anti-Up

Hi Col,

Can you believe the rate at which we're crashing through May?  Baby Quayle is due any day now, (cousin's first baby,) Baba's Grandad's first anniversary was this week so I'm sure my cousin has lots of mixed emotions.

Interesting weekend, something usually happens to me, something fails like washing machine, car.  I go into complete panic and stress mode, how much will it cost to fix?  How will I cope without it?  Everything turns out fine in the end but it takes me a good week or more to recover from the ordeal.

Last weekend, after my Sunday coffee, car had trouble starting  but then revved into action.  Friday morning, it happened again.  Friday afternoon, phoned Dear Brother-in-law/AA Patrol; "Think battery may be starting to fail, can we test?"  That evening, I head over with car to be tested and tell Jan, I'm sure it's not the battery and it'll be something mysterious and complicated and stressful and expensive.  Fifteen minutes later, check is complete and I do indeed need a new battery.  Saturday, and Dear BIL has left early for work to pick up my new battery, has completed his shift and is now home so I head over to have it fitted.

By virtue of a rapidly declining car battery, I luckily get to face time CJ and my adorable great niece as he phones home just before I leave.  It's a few weeks since I've seen her and I can't believe that my heart actually aches for this tiny human who has no attachment to me and is yet to utter any derivative of my name, what can I say?  I love her.  The last time I saw her, her vocabulary consisted of; Dada, Mama, Nanna, Grandad and More.  Now we have; Bubbles, Peas (please,) Woof, (doggie.)  I love her so.

My doctor's appointment was this week, how quickly did that come around? (Being facetious, made the appointment six weeks ago to fit in with work.)  I had a list but it was all what I would call non important stuff, for me anyway, like my Hay Fever, Raynaud's etc. Anyway, while I was there, my GP decided to check my blood pressure, it was high.  I've just spent two years monitoring it, GP finally gave up and increased my meds, it was fine for six months and now... it's up.  Disappointed isn't the word.

Anyway, the next day, I Google what can increase BP, and remember my GP gave me anti sickness meds so that I could take an anti inflammatory for my hip?  Well an anti inflammatory can increase BP, so I'm really hoping that's the reason for the increase.  Hip is still not great but is better than it was and I'm taking Turmeric too to reduce inflammation, so I'm going to stop with the anti inflammatory and see if my BP returns to normal, well, my normal.

I love you, hopefully back before June x