Crazy

"Hey, Jane get me off this crazy thing!"

That is how I feel about the health roller coaster we've been on.
The tests for Rich's high blood pressure keep coming back negative or normal. So we still have no answers for why his blood pressure would be up so high overnight. It is still ranging from 128/88 to 146/99. I know that high BP can start any time, but it seems a little ridiculous to me that it would be normal, with his having lost 27 pounds in 14 months, walking and exercising regularly, eating a low fat diet, and then go in for surgery and his BP skyrockets. That does not seem like primary high blood pressure. I think when he sees the internal medicine doc on Jan. 9th we'll ask for a referral to a blood pressure specialist to confirm.

Meanwhile, I see the Neurologist again on Dec. 31st. I am weaning myself off of the meds I have been taking because they don't seem to be helping. My tremor is worse, more frequent. My neuropathy is unchanged. My headaches may be a little fewer, but the meds make me car sick and unable to think, so I think I would rather have the headaches. I think the next thing is a sleep study in January. I may also ask for a hormone panel and a vitamin panel to check those levels and make sure that those are where they need to be.

I have been trying to exercise on a more consistant basis. Mall walking if I have to in order to keep pounds from jumping on and sticking...I have done well to avoid the biggest side-effect of my current meds wich is weight gain. I have been slipping though, with the cold and not being able to get outside as much it is more difficult to exercise and resist the holiday food accumulating in my house!

I feel like we have reached a sustained level of crazy. It may not be where we want, but it is far from the disaster it could be.

The Results...

We are waiting for results from some tests last week.
The gallbladder came out fine, but when they started the anesthetic, Rich's blood pressure went way up. All during surgery and in post-op and in recovery, they fought with his blood pressure. After it finally came down, it stayed down while he was in the hospital overnight, but by Monday it was up again. We tracked it for a week with the high at 156/105 and the low at 128/88.

So the internal medicine Dr. who was treating him in the hospital decided to order tests to determine if he had tumors on his adrenal glands. These are rare, very rare, but the symptoms present as a classic case. Even if they are present 95% of them are benign, so there isn't too much to worry about statistically...But that doesn't keep me from worrying.

Worrying and waiting for his test results. Trying desperately to keep up with what needs to be done even though I am already exhausted and the day has just begun. But I take comfort in the verse I read this morning Psalm 105:4 "Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always."
So I am trying not to worry, trying to seek the Lord and his strength so that I can make it through another time of waiting.