Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	family; health

Health
Well, today I went back to the doctor. I still haven't gotten around to getting the MRI and MRA done, but when I reminded her of that she told me not to worry about it at all. The blood work she had done came back with everything looking great (like so many doctors I've had before, she had to comment on the excessive amount of platelets in my blood compared to the average person, but that is a good thing). But of course, the main thing that had her concerned after my previous visit was my blood pressure. And apparently the medicine she gave me to take isn't doing much. In fact, my blood pressure was actually slightly higher this time around.

The medicine has seemed to help with my migraines though. I've still been getting headaches, but only one or two escalated into migraines in the last month or so. That is an enormous improvement. And the migraine medicine she gave me samples of took care of those migraines (though they did leave me feeling rather weird). So, she wanted to keep up with it. But now she's doubled the prescription to see if that will be more effective (she says she may double it again if it still hasn't done anything by the time I see her again in six weeks).

Tanja and I have also been talking about exercising together and I think I am really going to push for that in the hopes that it will help too. We'll see what happens in 6 weeks!

In other news, my father is still recovering from his prostate surgery. He seems mostly recovered from that, but now he's contracted gout some how. Tuesday he woke up with his foot hurting too much to walk on and a red spot as well as swelling on it. He finally went to the doctor about it today and they told him it was gout and gave him some medicine to help with it.

Hopefully he will recover from that soon as its hurting him more than the surgery seemed to right now.

Happy Things:
The "nameless" baby….

She's not really nameless. I'm referring to my niece Kaitlyn, which is a rather heavy baby being over 17 pounds at 4 months (she's already in 9 month clothing!?!). She's too cute though.

Anyway; the other day when my sister had her over to my parents' house, I went up to her and said something like "hello, are you going to tell me your name?" and it got the biggest smile you could possibly imagine from her. I have no clue why. But I kept doing it and every time she would have the same reaction. And so, now I'm calling her the "nameless" baby until she is able to tell me her name. hehe.

Just some fun sillyness. You can never have enough of that in your life!