Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 08:58:24 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: <7v54cjth8k16cktcinqjeo2lb6suq28cfs@4ax.com> References: <9f9eb48d-d76e-b2ed-845a-5b598aa50de8@example.net> <5ph1cj1sauh4evopn05l8anapp8ckt7m40@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:58:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a0b183a33295dc63aa325c109110ee63"; logging-data="2575800"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/C3sJ6raNCYczpZc/hJwyLr+Q8mSQyVOs=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:58l/LPVxhuCxXLHbCeerXx3yDv0= Bytes: 2699 On 18 Aug 2024 09:36:53 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: >On 18 Aug 2024 at 01:16:46 BST, "Bobbie Sellers" > wrote: > >> I don't know if I will make it or not and frankly I do not much >> care after 41 years of Systemic Exertional Intolerance Disease aka >> Post-Virual Fatigue Syndrome which is like being about a Zombie = without >> any appetite for brains. > >I get that whenever I'm on blood pressure meds, can barely sit upright >on a sofa. But when I'm off them I have other obvious issues. Sucks all >the balls. Good luck! It's probably too late in your situation -- high blood pressure apparently changes things irreversibly -- but when I retired I also watched my sodium intake and used the BP machines at the local pharmacy and grocery store (I think both had them) to check it. I got it down pretty well. So well, in face, that I started seeing an uncertain visual field when I got up. Adding a little more sodium to my plan raised my BP closer to normal (it was rather below) and solved that problem. But I was, I suspect, fortunate -- I got on it while it still responded to sodium intake. As I said above, high blood pressure apparently makes this irrelevant. Well, either that or the doctors have given up on it as nobody will follow their low-sodium diet plan. This what semantic mush looks like when it infests reality. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"