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

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Manolo stopped the daily aspirin as well on the advice of the doctor who had, at first, encouraged him to take it. It's a complicated issue.

I need to start putting away Christmas.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess medical knowledge is constantly advancing.

I grew up believing it was unlucky to keep Christmas decorations up beyond Twelfth Night.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I think it is often the way that the media portray medical advances that leads to the confusion.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Too true. The TV news is the source of most of my medical "knowledge".