Shake, Rattle and….

Saw the doctor yesterday, for my now-regular monthly checkup. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that in the last two months I have acquired diagnoses for angina, high blood pressure and an underactive thyroid.
All that’s on top of my existing arthritis. Whoo hoo…. I now don’t feel so guilty about not doing the gardening.
Yesterday, he checked me over, told me I was doing pretty well and gave me a prescription for a whole new lot of pills, as well as increasing the strength of my thryrodoxine. I now have to take a total of four – or is it five? – different medications a day. That’s not counting my vitamin supplements.
Apparently the new lot of pills is because the pills for my angina interfere with the pills for my thyroid and vice-versa; this new pill is to balance things out.
So I took the new increased dose of thyroidoxine last night, as advised – I told him how cold I got at night in bed, no matter how many blankets I piled on, so he suggested taking it in the evening instead of the morning.
I didn’t get to sleep until around 4am. I woke up around 8am, feeling not too bad, just a bit dry-mouthed and headachy. I’m still feeling not too bad and it’s what? getting on for 4pm? I am waiting to for the need to sleep to kick in – better get downstairs and arrange myself on the sofa…..