Hello from intensive care, I guess

Food's pretty good though

Update: no longer in intensive care!

@joepie91 Thanks for letting us know you're still alive, I guess?

@joepie91 ouch, hope they can help you get that pressure back down.

@joepie91 shit! 🫂

@joepie91 jeez! your blood pressure?
get well! 💐

@joepie91 Eeeeee

@joepie91 What?! Sh!t! Your blood pressure? Get well soon!

@ClaudetteK No worries, main reason turned out to be so that they could do continuous monitoring - now that that's completed, I'll be 'downgraded' to a regular bed instead

@joepie91 Well, some worries (coz that’s how I roll) but glad to hear you weren’t in imminent danger. Do they have any idea of a cause or plan of approach yet?

@ClaudetteK Nope, that's still TBD

@joepie91 Get well soon!

@cab404 Thanks!

@joepie91 yay 🎉

@joepie91 Fijn om te lezen! Maar wordt het eten nu ook minder sjiek?

@StroomAfwaarts Nee hoor! Zelfde voedselafdeling :) Ik plaats zo nog even wat foto's

@joepie91 ik vond die bakjes van vanmiddag al helemaal geweldig! Kom maar door met die foto's 😊

@StroomAfwaarts Here you go: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110074618030866997

@joepie91 ziet er goed uit! 🥰

@joepie91 ah shit, not the best number to go up. get well :(

@ClaudetteK Yep, this is already being monitored by my doc (well, and myself), and a specialist visit is probably in the cards - it's a long-running saga, just today's peak was absurd

@joepie91 Ugh, I hear you. Take good care of yourself!
Some BP issues here as well, though luckily (mostly) only systolic, which can be traced back directly to absurd amounts of stress. But apparently you need time to relax to do something about that, so farmaceuticals it is (says me, not my GP, though he might, too, soon. 🤷🏽‍♀️ ). Sláinte!

@ClaudetteK Yep, I suspect that stress (and trauma) is also a factor here - most recent blood test looked almost like it came out of a textbook as an example of 'correct values'

@joepie91 Oh, wow! It’s bizarre what the body will absorb and yet still continue to function through, isn’t it? I never used to take stress seriously as a cause for anything physical but, man!, am I finding out the hard way. Having had COVID recently doesn’t help either, of course. 😏