Hi @Zoe7

I'm glad your BP has settled with what you are taking but yes - your other medication has a part to play as well - oh what fun we have when we need medication

There is a whole class of pain medication I am seriously allergic too - people who don't know any better try and convince me it's a reaction and my GP forgets what my allergy was - it's anaphylaxis and that is hardly a reaction - ooohhh - dontcha just luv it when someone tries to convince you of the opposite to the truth - still they try

Your depression is getting worse - ah - do you find that happens with the onset of winter? I have always felt it - I remember feeling really miserable when I was a child - I would feel really cold and back then after WW2 fuel was rationed and now I have the heater on all day and all night to keep the temperature stable - back then we had an open fire at night but during the day the solid brick house was icy and it makes me wonder people how other people manage in an unheated environment - it must be horrible.

Stress - yes - it seems stress can't be treated - I have accepted the stress in my life and wonder what else can one do but meditate which I do - and keep my spinal pain under control but alas - my BP was high - and it is worse when it is too low as well - so I hope these tablets are going to work better - the GP I have now is pretty good - it took a while to break him in after my old GP retired a few years ago - at first he was nervous about writing Schedule 8 medication but after I had an MRI he was okay - he knows I am responsible about what I take and I take a lot less than is prescribed - 

I haven't heard from my Tassie rellies - I wrote them a letter and card and mailed it express but I haven't heard anything and feel I should try and find out from my other rellies and maybe it's time I did - maybe seeing as I am so close I already know but I don't and maybe they are still seriously ill - I try not to let it get to me but it's not easy. My daughter is recoving though which is the best news - she has been back at work and I hope she continues to recover - personally I think her surgeon could have done better but she thinks it's okay and I don't argue

Companion Cat is sitting on the back of the couch behine me - she is old too and we understand each other but there are times when she behaves like a naughty kitten and I wonder about her - seriously.

My cleaning lady left the laundry door open and Companion Cat got into the rubbish after she had gone and messed up the laundry - and the door of the spare room was left open and it is tidy in there but cold - and I wondered what was going on in there and Companion Cat has got into a pile of papers for filing and messed that up - next - she is 14.5 and all her life I  always have had a bucket over the drain in the bathroom because she wants to play in the dirty water - the bucket had been moved and there was dirty water all over the bath. I felt like squealing - no good yelling at the cat but felt like crying - at least having a naughty cat gives me something to talk about

And I just turned around to look at her and it is dark outside and I didn't go for a walk - perhaps better I didn't because today is the first day my feet have felt comfortable and let's not push things

Life does go on - I have my appetite back which is good - 

Thinking of you Zoe - we live in different states - hate the cold - and have valuable company in pets - and I think we have a lot on common

Dec