Yes, my blood pressure is high. it has been high my entire life. Not just adult life, but entire life when we look back and discuss events as young as when I was a month old baby having uncontrollable nosebleeds.
Yes, I am fat. I make no bones about the fact that I am fat. It's not like it's something that can be hidden.
I went to my doctor today to get a prescription refill of my blood pressure medications. What I didn't go for was a lecture on how 90% of the time, the reason a person has high blood pressure is because of their weight.
Today, I fought back. I told him that I have had blood pressure issues all my life. That even when I lost 45lbs 6 years ago, I was still suffering from severe high blood pressure and that weight seemingly had no effect when I lost any. That it is entire possible that my blood pressure is up because I am the sole income provider for my household because through no fault of his my husband is unable to work. Added to that work situation, I am self employed for only 10 months out of the year and most of the extras I get to do at this particular time of the year (being Christmas) is expected and is done out of the goodness of my heart in the name of charity. One of these days I will be the charity case that people are giving to.
I explained how my husband is getting the work ups needed to be on the transplant list and how we are goign now for cadaver only so he has a better chance of having approximately 5 years diabetes free and maybe get a "quality of life" back around the age of 40. Of course, by then we will be so far in debt that there will be no quality of life, but that's something to piss and moan about whenever that time arrives.
He then said that perhaps since the holidays are so stressful that I should look at going away for the holidays. He and his family have gone on 2 week cruises for the past 2 christmases to make sure they just get away from the craziness. I figure doctors don't have to have ears because everything I had just told him didn't get through the ear canal to the brain.
Then he decided that it was time to have the whole round of blood tests done again because "at your size, it's guaranteed to be high cholesterol and high sugars". he says that every year and every year in January I get immense satisfaction when he exclaims with complete shock "Wow! You're in shockingly good health for someone your size!"
He then told me how he has lost 6lbs in 3 weeks by not eating after supper. That's really all I have to do is get out for a walk of at least 30 minutes per day and not eat after supper. Considering my supper is not existant because I work in the evenings, it's not exactly possible. Some times my supper is 9pm or later at night, which is then when I dont' eat after supper. Other than that, the only thing I could do is eat once around 1pm for the day if I go by his rule of thumb.
Then I got the lecture about how if someone told me that I could avoid cancer by not eating certain foods I would but how we don't as a community get scared by diabetes even though the statistics for people who are diabetic and have a massive heart attack within 10 years of diagnosis are 70% and how there are 50% of diabetics with amputations due to complications and often go blind from the disease.
I again told him he was preaching to the choir as I am more than aware of what the disease can do since my husband is a type 1 diabetic since age 11, is on a pump, has had his left eye go blind due to diabetic retinopathy, has had hyperthyroidism due to his diabetes along with 2 rounds of radiation to kill it and is now going through mounds of testing and work ups for a kidney and pancreas transplant, but thanks for the lecture Dr. Asshole.
And how has YOUR Monday morning been?!!?
