Satyrday CatchingUp
Jul. 27th, 2024 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vik_thorI sorta wish I had been able to go to London for the Relay.FM 10th anniversary show. (but at least it looks like the recording has been posted, so I will get to listen to it.)
Missouri's Primary election is 06 August 12024. I am working as Poll Manager again. I am actually working as the republican manager. (no, I am NOT registered as R with the state, nor the state R party. It is just that to work in the polls in MO, you have to declare a party affiliation. I've never registered as / with either major party (even though I am much more of a Democrat than the modern RETHUGLICAN / MAGAT party. The County of Saint Louis is fairly Democrat, so I work as Republican to keep the trumpists / MAGATs from trying to keep people from voting. I don't know if I will continue working as a Poll Manager gong forward... It has been a bit stressful. Regular poll worker, I don't mind, but being in charge of the polling place... no thanks... But on the other hand, I do NOT want the RETHUGLICANs to be the poll managers. (If anyone ever says anything, I will say I am more of an Eisenhower Republican, rather than the modern Trumpist cult member...) Basically, if someone is registered to vote, I want them to be able to vote...
Thursday, 25 July, I stopped at LabCorp to get blood drawn for my Dr. appointment on 1 August. Got the results through MyChart, and about as expected, the cholesterol/lipid #s are a bit high... not outrageously so.
I am currently on a blood thinner, and 2 blood pressure medications, so I can no longer donate blood. These medications were started after I had an atrial fibrilation earlier this year. I am actually feeling better than before I started taking them (which is pretty much the point, isn't it? :) )
I've got a home blood pressure machine (actually have had it for well over a year at this point) but only started taking my BP regularly this year. (The times I took it before, I actually thought it wasn't working right, because it was reading 175/101 type readings, and "I don't have high blood pressure, so the machine must not be working right." When I would get my blood pressure at the doctors office, or when I was giving blood, they were not getting readings that high. They would get readings that were a bit elevated, on the high side of normal. Some people have higher blood pressure at Doctor's office, because they are nervous. I think I tend to have lower when official people take it...
I got my https://www.mephitfurmeet.org/ MFM 2024 registration paid, so I will be going down there over Labor Day weekend. Driving my Bolt EUV, so won't be part of the caravan.
Missouri's Primary election is 06 August 12024. I am working as Poll Manager again. I am actually working as the republican manager. (no, I am NOT registered as R with the state, nor the state R party. It is just that to work in the polls in MO, you have to declare a party affiliation. I've never registered as / with either major party (even though I am much more of a Democrat than the modern RETHUGLICAN / MAGAT party. The County of Saint Louis is fairly Democrat, so I work as Republican to keep the trumpists / MAGATs from trying to keep people from voting. I don't know if I will continue working as a Poll Manager gong forward... It has been a bit stressful. Regular poll worker, I don't mind, but being in charge of the polling place... no thanks... But on the other hand, I do NOT want the RETHUGLICANs to be the poll managers. (If anyone ever says anything, I will say I am more of an Eisenhower Republican, rather than the modern Trumpist cult member...) Basically, if someone is registered to vote, I want them to be able to vote...
Thursday, 25 July, I stopped at LabCorp to get blood drawn for my Dr. appointment on 1 August. Got the results through MyChart, and about as expected, the cholesterol/lipid #s are a bit high... not outrageously so.
I am currently on a blood thinner, and 2 blood pressure medications, so I can no longer donate blood. These medications were started after I had an atrial fibrilation earlier this year. I am actually feeling better than before I started taking them (which is pretty much the point, isn't it? :) )
I've got a home blood pressure machine (actually have had it for well over a year at this point) but only started taking my BP regularly this year. (The times I took it before, I actually thought it wasn't working right, because it was reading 175/101 type readings, and "I don't have high blood pressure, so the machine must not be working right." When I would get my blood pressure at the doctors office, or when I was giving blood, they were not getting readings that high. They would get readings that were a bit elevated, on the high side of normal. Some people have higher blood pressure at Doctor's office, because they are nervous. I think I tend to have lower when official people take it...
I got my https://www.mephitfurmeet.org/ MFM 2024 registration paid, so I will be going down there over Labor Day weekend. Driving my Bolt EUV, so won't be part of the caravan.
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Date: 2024-07-28 03:51 am (UTC)Blood pressure is a strange thing. I've been on meds for high blood pressure as well for the last year or so and have one of those little home blood pressure monitors. It's always reading higher than what I get from the doctor's office. I spoke to one of the nurses there and she said they're not allowed to even use them because they're too inaccurate.
So I guess they're good for ballpark readings. But the old cuff and stethoscope is still the way to go if you know how to use them.