Health update

[Julian Field]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> 2008/7/1 Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:
>   
>> on 6-28-2008 4:07 AM Julian Field spake the following:
>>     
>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>       
>>>> on 6-25-2008 7:39 AM Peter Peters spake the following:
>>>>         
>>>>> Glenn Steen wrote on 13-6-2008 23:20:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Same here... Well. Haven't donated any organs (yet), and some of them
>>>>>> are really shoddy... But I do carry my donor card with me at all
>>>>>> times... Who knows when time is up?!
>>>>>>             
>>>>> My girlfriend does not feel to good about the idea of them cutting into
>>>>> me after I am dead. I am still trying to convince her.
>>>>>           
>>>> What is she going to do? Have you freeze-dried and prop you up in the
>>>> corner?
>>>>
>>>> Tell her that it is a way for a part of you to live on after your gone.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> At the meantime I donate blood every 3 to 4 months and will start
>>>>> donating blood plasm in a short while.
>>>>>           
>>>> I had to stop for a while as my blood pressure is too high for their
>>>> liking, but not high enough for the doctor to put me on meds. But here is my
>>>> donor card, and since I will most likely be cremated, my wife doesn't have a
>>>> problem with it.
>>>>         
>>> I don't know if anyone here understands blood pressure figures, but here's
>>> a couple to make you laugh. I normally have very low blood pressure, and
>>> have to live on beta-blockers as well, which lower it further.
>>>
>>> Up and walking around the house, some paramedics once measured me (and
>>> checked it as they didn't believe it) at 64/45. The last time I had an
>>> endoscopy, it dropped to 65/39. That had them a little worried, to put it
>>> mildly, but I had warned them in advance that this does tend to happen. I've
>>> now had 31 endoscopies, and I know exactly how my body reacts to them, i.e.
>>> not kindly :-)
>>>       
>> Who reacts to them well? Not the most fun way to spend an afternoon! And
>> they have the gall to tell you to relax!
>>
>>     
> Through the mouth is pure horror,I agree. The other end.... Is simpler
> to live with. One can actually tell 'em to hold it when it hurts too
> much... not an option with a hose down your gullet:-).
>   
I've had the other version done a couple of times, it's not half as bad.
> Can't say I react good to them either... then again, as you say
> Scott.... Who does?
>   
Indeed!
> Jules, what can one say....? It's a miracle enough oxygene permeates
> your body! How  your brain can function as spectaularly as it does....
> is beyond that!!!
>   
Aw shucks... <blush>

Jules

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