A health scare

My blood pressure monitor

This is our recent purchase. I had a bit of a health scare recently. I was getting headaches over one eye, and then I developed a sore eye. This didn't clear up, and so I went to the doctor, and he put 2 and 2 together and decided that both symptoms may have been related. So off to pathology for an arm-full of blood for testing, and then on to have a brain scan! (Yes, they did detect a brain, I am pleased to say!)

Anyhow, the tests came back clear, which didn't help my sore eye, but I now have eye drops, so I am walking round peering through a greasy fog a lot of the time!!

But....isn't there always a 'but'?...... I have horribly high blood pressure...don't know why...so we thought we would buy a monitor to keep tabs on it. This is it...dead simple to use...strap it on your wrist, and press a button, and Bob's your Uncle. It stores the last 60 readings for comparison. So, using this regularly, plus the diet I am on for lowering blood pressure, we shall see what can be achieved. Very early days yet...only a week, so I have to give it a reasonable amount of time.

It's all a bit of a bother, but, as they say "worse things happen at sea"!