As I type at 9.00 on a Sunday morning it is precisely a year today since I was standing around in George Square in Glasgow, trying to keep warm and waiting to run the half marathon element of The Great Scottish Run. You’ll find the story of that here.
Today the world looks different, not simply [...]
And so we have a new government: given the way that the final electoral arithmetic worked out we got the only one of the possible permutations which made arithmetical and political sense. Quite how long lasting the arrangement will prove to be I do not know but as they have only been in office for [...]
I composed the following blog entry shortly before Mr. Brown’s political coup du theatre. I’ll post it anyway and ponder Brown some more for tomorrow.
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Gary Younge, commenting in this morning’s Guardian about the widely reported demands of the financial markets regarding the outcome of the election, wrote as follows:
The very sector we bailed [...]
Election fever strikes and Cosmic Mansions is plunged into a maelstrom of apathy. I’m not going to write anything obviously political about it here or elsewhere – even were I not a public servant and therefore bound to draw a discrete veil over my thoughts, I should not think that you would be particularly interested. [...]
Previously on Ian’s Health…. I worked hard last year to get fit for a marathon on my 50th but a month before, after finishing the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon, discovered I had dangerously high blood pressure. Intense exercise was put on hold for a while and medication was prescribed which brought me back to [...]
Just a brief one for a change – Blood Pressure was down yesterday to 137/86 which is in the normal range – albeit right at the top end of “normal”. Hooray! Hooray!
I was at the doctor yesterday morning for an update on the BP. It is pretty much where it was two weeks ago and so I have had the dosage of Lisinopril taken up a notch (prescription rules for this state start low and work up to the effective dosage). However I was [...]
I went to the doctor’s today to find out how my dance with hypertension is progressing. After 28 days of (minimum dosage) medication, my BP has reduced from 190/120 to 170/104. This is progress -I think that it moves me from severe to moderate hypertension- but there is still a way to go. In addition [...]
I’m several days now into my pharmaceutical regime, my wee white pills which accompany breakfast each morning. This is a novelty for me – I’m usually reticent about touching anything. Back when I had migraines I got used to carrying around pseudoephedrine and ibuprophen but since I stopped drinking coffee and strong tea [...]
Ah well.
After training for the best part of a year I shall not now be running the Loch Ness Marathon in October. The reason being that high blood pressure I’ve been talking about.
My blood test came back fine: sodium and potassium are normal, I don’t have diabetes, my cholesterol is OK and the high [...]
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