good dr's appt today :)

[boogieshoes]

cross-posted to boogies_workout_blog :

BP was 102/70, heartrate 72, officially down 20 lbs (last measurement there was 279, and this one 259).  Doc's lowering one of my meds, and i promised myself i'd get an obgyn appt in sept.  I haven't for several reasons, including the infamous 'i haven't had time!', which is true, but it's also true that i hate obgyn appts with a firey passion.  i know it's related to my rape when i was 7, and it sucks ass, and i know nothing's 'going to happen' - but that doesn't mean it's easy to get myself into the gynecologist's office.

*but*!  i'm excited about the low BP and the lower heart-rate.  it means that even the not-very-much exercising i've been doing is helping a lot. 

and then i laughed for 15min while the nurse tried to draw blood.  i'm a hard stick, and it's always fun to see what they try next.

-bs

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[slavelabour.livejournal.com]

That's really good news!

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

*grins* thank you!

-bs

[scatteredgray.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm so impressed you can laugh while someone sticks you for 15 minutes. I'd be freaked after the first failure or two. Uuugh needles.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

nah, it does get kind of old after a while, but i'm not afraid of needles. it just cracks me up that every single time i need a blood test, the conversation goes something like this:

RN: so, which arm do you usually get blood drawn from?
me: whichever one you can find a vein in.
RN: huh?
me: i'm a hard stick - my veins are deep, and roll, and sink and just generally run away from the needle.
RN: well, you just haven't had the right nurse yet!
*RN ties rubber tourniquet on above elbow*
*i make a fist*
*RN taps inner elbow*
RN: hmmm
*removes tourniquet from one arm, goes to the other, routine repeats*
me (helpfully): try the hand?
*RN tries one or both hands, and spends fifteen minutes tapping skin, instructing me to make a fist, relax a fist, moving rubber tourniquet, and finally eyeing the big blue veins on the inner wrists*
me: just call me the bloodless wonder *smirks*

never fails - *every time*

frankly, if i had issues with getting stuck, i'd be a basket case any time i had to go to the doc.

fortunately - or not - the only doc that really makes me a basketcase is the obgyn.

-bs