as if there wasn't enough

I have a new health issue to tack on to my other issues. And I'm finally getting ready to deal with it.

I have high blood pressure. And I can't blame pain, but rather think that I was getting throbbing head pain FROM the high blood pressure. And it was more of a dull throbbing pain instead of a "take your breath away sharp intense pain".

With the help of my ob-gyn, I got hooked up wtih a great primary care doctor. Yes, I was there to start dealing with my high blood pressure, but I had other issues he could help me with.

At least the EKG showed my heart is tolerating my high blood pressure very well. I have to get blood drawn tomorrow morning to check cardiac enzymes and make sure my kidneys are okay.

He was generally interested in my story of how long it took to get my final celiac confirmation. He agreed that I should get a bone density scan because their scale also think I'm now an inch shorter than I was for 15 years. (That and the broken bones I've suffered during diagnosis.)

He sent me home with something to lower the blood pressure and a beta blocker. I have to get the blood drawn tomorrow morning and I see him again Friday morning.

It's great that since I can say I work on a clinical hospital floor, and explain all the hell I've been through he seemed to respect where I was coming from.

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The hard part is not having my mom find out. She's got enough to worry about since my dad is having problems. He goes in for a CT tomorrow. There's a problem where the feeding tube was, and he's showing signs of dumping syndrome (enough said).

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Then my sister had an outbreak of a strange rash. Her doctor thinks it's shingles. At least it isn't causing her pain (yet).

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I won't say "what else can go wrong?"

fights

The last time my boyfriend was here, we had our first big fight.

It wasn't about anything big, but basically he was jealous of my guy friends. One of them called me up and offered me a ticket to join him at the D-backs suite for the game the next night. Instead of flat turning down the ticket, I figured I should tell boyfriend that my friends still remember me, but I don't think I want to go.

So we had to have a loud discussion about what we were doing wrong in this situtation. Pretty much ruined our sushi night. But at least there was make-up sex.

Now I'm in part starting a fight over IM. Mostly because he's dumping this camping trip on me this Friday. Since I still don't even know if three hours of my work day are going to be eaten up by seminar, this is a major stress kitten for me. And I feel that I HAVE to go along with this when I lack energy or desire to do so.

Hopefully we'll be able to "compromise" (as my mom puts it).

big *duh*

I feel like a bloody idiot.

Laptop was fine. I should have gone with my gut that the power adaptor was bad.

I managed to talk myself out of it because the power adaptor had been working fine a couple hours ago and all I did was move the laptop and power adaptor from the living room to the bedroom. And the little light that comes on when connected to the laptop was lighting up.

I wish I could have taken a volt meter and ruled it out. Turned out to be an expensive lesson.

But it's back now.