*Boring, Not Funny
Even though my name is Joey I’m going to be Frank with you, the last week has been incredibly strange. Since last Wednesday I have been been sick, watched a ton of movies, done a wedding rehearsal dinner, shopped at Kroger, had a birthday, and went to the ER. Its been wild and I imagine it is only going to get wilder in the next few days due to this c word virus. I’m just waiting for the mandatory quarantine at this point.
I started feeling unwell last Wednesday and thought I could just haze it out of my body with booze and a strong will, until I woke up Thursday morning. I felt as though I had full blown aids, cancer, and jaundice. I had a headache, runny nose, and my throat felt like the devil himself was in there.
So, I took Thursday and Friday off from work and took every medicine available in the house which made me feel only moderately better. For some reason I attended a wedding rehearsal dinner Friday night. Ill tell you what man, you mix a bunch of sinus medicine, bottle of Dayquil, and four red wines you get feeling nice and tight. Holy smokes I was rolling, it felt like an out of body experience.
So, I am still not feeling good come Saturday and I am supposed to go to a wedding at 2:30 PM that day. I made it evident to the lady that I did not feel well enough or comfortable enough to attend a large gathering of people while I am in this condition. She eventually agrees for me not to show up, due to my deteriorating health, on the agreement that I would go to see a doctor that day.
So, I roll myself off the couch and head to the Kroger Minute Clinic to get checked out to make sure I do not have the Coronavirus. I wait in the waiting room with the other miserable ugly people and then they call my name. I see the doctor and she tells me everything is fine and that I just have seasonal allergies/ sinus infections and prescribe me amoxicillin.
But she also says, “I’m about to tell you something that you do want to hear.” She told me that my blood pressure, which was 163/110, was alarmingly high and that I would have to go to the Emergency Room to get it checked out.
So, at this point I’m in total crisis mode and think there is no doubt that I am going to pass away. I run home, feed the dog, then head off to the hospital. I login with the staff and am brought back to a room in about ten minutes. They even gave me a gown to put on, which took me about ten minutes to figure out. That how dumb I am.
So, the doctor comes in and we talk, he takes my blood pressure again and its still crazy high. For the next two hours I’m given an IV, a pill, some saline, and numerous blood pressure tests in an attempt to get me back to normal.
This whole story, to me, is getting incredibly boring so I’m going to cut to the point. I have high blood pressure and I am currently taking medicine to try and get it under control. So, a little advice is to go to the doctor regularly. I probably had not been in like 7 years. Once again, I’m dumb. It’s a strange feeling to go from thinking you have the Coronavirus to thinking you are going to have a stroke at any moment. It’s not fun.
Alright I’m going to get political real quick. Am I the only one that thinks Tulsi Gabbard is really hot? And that is all for politics talk.
Here is a list of movies I watched:
There Will be Blood
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Once Upon a Time in the West
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