Day #76: Falling Down
So, there’s this guy right, and he gets outs of bed and sometimes when he goes to the bathroom in the morning, he stumbles in there and has to hold on to the door to steady himself. Why? because he’s dizzy due to having a low blood pressure I suppose.
Yes, that soldier was me, and this morning I went to the bathroom and fell over.
I fell on to the side of the bath - I forgot to grab the door frame I suppose. So the next thing I know I’m kind of slumped against the bath, half asleep, half wondering why I’m slumped against the bath. I stayed there for about 10 seconds just slumped, wondering trying to make sense of it. I didn’t really hurt myself - despite not having any padding anymore, I just got up and went to the loo, then back to bed for a little while.
I should be more careful I suppose. Only a couple of weeks to go.
My wife and I went to see a friend we haven’t seen in a while around lunchtime, and then went to play some street hockey with another bunch of friends.
It didn’t take long for me to get out of breath, but we all had a good time, and I moved into goal pretty soon after starting :). I also fell down a couple of times while we were playing. Not due to low blood pressure this time, but pure lack of skill matched only by tenacity. Falling on concrete with a bony ass hurts 
Those that were left at the end all for a nice cup of tea at the tea house, again - good times.
We then headed to the hardware store to get some wood for the internal windows in the soon to be (hopefully) finished Homeopathy Clinic in the basement.
After getting pretty cold playing hockey in the afternoon, I wanted to warm up significantly, so struck upon the idea of the steam room at the pool, so we went and again I had a good half hour session in there - very nice.
I’ve started trying to meditate too, I’m not very good at it yet, my mind wanders quite a bit, but I think it can only be a good thing to try and learn how to do it, so I’m going for it. You’re never too old to learn something new.
I’m really missing food now, well I always was, but I think it’s that whole getting near to the end thing that’s at once both reassuring and frustrating.
I almost forgot, my sugar this morning was 4.3
So, tomorrow I’ll remember to take my time getting out of bed, and try not to fall down at all during the day.
Until tomorrow…
‘night.
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