wasn't going very fast, so no injuries.
Just a bent car.
Yo be honest I'd swap a broken bone ot two to have a fixable car.
It's going to get moved to a garage the insurance company uses - so not entirely declared dead yet.
And had a small ladder (well depends how you look at it I supose - could be a very long ladder
yesterday.
When my diabetes got diagnosed just over a year ago. My blood pressure was apparently high enough to kill a small elephant.
And all the medical personnel I saw in the first month or so were clearly puzzled why I wasn't:
a) dead
and
b) having any symptons.
I just got used to them looking at the readout and gasping, then asking me: 'Do you feel alright ?'
Worried I was going to peg it then and there, I suppose.
So while I've got a blood pressure machine, I haven't been using it because, while both my blood glucose levels and cholesterol levels are almost 'normal' now, the blood pressure didn't seem to change.
And frankly it was depressing doing the readings.
Got an appointment with the diabetes specialist tomorrow, so figured I'd better do some bp readings.
You medics will look at what it used to be and gasp:
Over the last 12 months it's averaged somewhere between 190/100 and 210/120.
The chances are it'd been that high for quite a number of years.
Yeah that's right - I'm unkillable, blood vessels made from woven kevlar
Yesterday I did several readings and the highest was 135/84
lowest 132/79.
Given that the specialist, at my appointment 6 months ago, said I was aiming for around 130/80.
I'm well chuffed
I'll do some more today.
But unpleasant as it is - the diet is definitely working !
Not sure I'll get off the medication (my ultimate goal) tomorrow, but it's getting closer to that glorious day