At some point a couple months ago Lisa informed me that she was starting to go through menopause. (See previous posting entitled TMI MTWTF.) As everyone knows your system goes a bit haywire, including hot flashes and general body temperature fluctuations. I can't say I mind too much. I bring a sweater in case she wants the A/C on despite the outside temperature of about 45 fahrenheit, so no big deal.
A few minutes ago she said to be "see what happens when you get to be my age, first you're cold one minute then you're hot". Does she think that my rather deep voice and manly (if a bit scruffy) beard are some sort of strange quirk? Because last I knew of hot flashes and whatnot were something I wouldn't have to suffer through as a man.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Under Pressure
If I haven't mentioned it so far, Lisa is a BIG lady. She's somewhere close to my weight and around a foot shorter, which sets her up for a veritable swarm of health problems. Several times she's called out because her legs or knees are too swollen to come in. It's the human equivalent of a bridge's supports buckling because of too many heavy trucks filled with frozen tv dinners rumbling overhead, followed by tankers carrying gigantic vats of McDonalds Sweet Tea.
Of course she can't be that heavy without incurring one of the biggest issues for the overweight. (pun intended) Yes folks, the ever alarming high blood pressure. This morning soon after her arrival, mere moments after her chair had stopped creaking and groaning, she informed me that tomorrow she'll be a half hour late coming in, because she'll be going to the doctors to have her blood pressure checked. It seems that they're worried, being alarmists and very concerned that her blood pressure this weekend was 194/150.
Lisa isn't worried though, because that's pretty low for her she says.
Of course she can't be that heavy without incurring one of the biggest issues for the overweight. (pun intended) Yes folks, the ever alarming high blood pressure. This morning soon after her arrival, mere moments after her chair had stopped creaking and groaning, she informed me that tomorrow she'll be a half hour late coming in, because she'll be going to the doctors to have her blood pressure checked. It seems that they're worried, being alarmists and very concerned that her blood pressure this weekend was 194/150.
Lisa isn't worried though, because that's pretty low for her she says.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Behind In The Times
Does the modern world have more going on to it than it used to? Maybe. Or it could be we just hear more about it due to the news. Regardless, there's a lot of stories out there and it's impossible to be up on them all. Between the sports fiascos, celebrity scandals, political blunders and continual prognostication about the economy fighting for time with swine flu stories in their death throes.
Do I expect Lisa to be up on everything? Certainly not. There's been far too much going on in the world. Yet some issues I would think are so pervasive that you'd at least know the barebones details. Take for example the simple phrase 'fossil fuels'.
To almost anyone those two words evoke a whole range of news stories; global warming, melting polar ice caps, impending world doom, or the simple argument that it's all complete garbage, simply a cycle of warming and cooling the world goes through.
Or you could be like Lisa who upon seeing a headline regarding fossil fuels said "are those the ones made from dinosaurs". I of course indicated the affirmative to which she responded, "so why are those bad?"
Do I expect Lisa to be up on everything? Certainly not. There's been far too much going on in the world. Yet some issues I would think are so pervasive that you'd at least know the barebones details. Take for example the simple phrase 'fossil fuels'.
To almost anyone those two words evoke a whole range of news stories; global warming, melting polar ice caps, impending world doom, or the simple argument that it's all complete garbage, simply a cycle of warming and cooling the world goes through.
Or you could be like Lisa who upon seeing a headline regarding fossil fuels said "are those the ones made from dinosaurs". I of course indicated the affirmative to which she responded, "so why are those bad?"
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