Things That Have Been Happening

[poliphilo]

The day before yesterday we got about an inch of snow. It didn't hang around.

Yesterday we had sleety rain. In the morning I went for my yearly medical check-up. The nurse took my blood pressure and a couple of blood samples and we talked about my general state of health. I get the impression she thinks I'm in reasonably good shape. I've been taking aspirin once a day and she told me the doctor's advice is to drop it; she wasn't sure why. I walked to the medical centre and walked back- which is the most exercise I've had in a couple of months. In the evening I took down the Christmas tree.

The electricity had been flickering all afternoon. At around 10.30 we had a power cut, so I lit a candle and went to bed. The cuts continued through the night- and every time the power went off or came on again it triggered a couple of nearby house alarms. 

Comments

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowed to take aspirin, because of threatened ulcer in the past, and because of recent nosebleeds
The positive is that it reduces clotting, the negative is that it encourages bleeding

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so long ago they were recommending that everyone over a certain age should take an aspirin a day. Clearly that advice has been withdrawn.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I take baby aspirin. And I still clot.:)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But does it reduce it?

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

If I'm going to have invasive surgery, they'd tell me to stop it ahead of time, just to be safe, but I haven't noticed any difference, like when I cut myself.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I haven't noticed any difference either.