FEELING BETTER

I made an appointment at the doctors' surgery this morning. The receptionist asked if Doctor Yang at 2.30 would be suitable. I was tempted to say that I thought it was a doctors' surgery and not a dentists' but then thought that if she didn't come from Wainouiomata she would be unaware of those old jokes. Also, you never know what might be considered to be racist nowadays. The doctor's surgery is very close being a 5 minute walk to the next street over.

I then walked to The Terrace to Awanui Labs to provide blood and a urine sample.

At the 2.30 consultation Doctor Yang did a whole series of tests on me after a long discussion of my dizziness symptoms and concluded that it was very, very unlikely that I had a TIA (mini stroke) on Tuesday but most likely had raised blood pressure and dehydration from the extreme physical efforts I'd been undertaking over the last week. Living in a 3 level house is nice for space and views but a bugger when carrying up furniture and heavy boxes. His measurements showed that I'm still in AF as usual but my blood oxygen levels and blood pressure and pulse were back to normal. Whew!

I'm feeling a lot better this evening but a lot of that has to do with the reassurance.

I really hope that Richard's condition improves and that his 'readings' are normal.

With regard to old jokes