{"id":7418,"date":"2013-02-08T21:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2013-02-08T21:59:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:59:06","slug":"my-blood-pressure-takes-your-medication-and-laughs-in-its-general-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/my-blood-pressure-takes-your-medication-and-laughs-in-its-general-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"My Blood Pressure Takes Your Medication and Laughs in its General Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, Friday. \u00a0I had no appointments today, and thus got to sleep in after wrangling Anna out of the house in time for school. \u00a0It was lovely. \u00a0I spent the afternoon parked on the sofa, pretty much exactly like this:<\/p>\n

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A Hrefna, parked on the sofa with a laptop. Picture taken by Anna.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A self-portrait by Anna. She got a hold of my phone and proceeded to make videos of herself walking all over the house, documenting various parts of it. \u00a0Let’s just say that she was a wee bit on the hyper side today…<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyway. \u00a0The boys came home around 5 pm at which point I’d just napped for an hour (Anna went to swim practice). \u00a0After reading a book for Bjarki, I decided to take my blood pressure (having not stepped out of the sofa for over an hour). \u00a0The three readings I did were all in the 180\/110 range, so I uh, called the hospital and got permission to come in for a bit of monitoring.<\/p>\n

When I got there, the first measurement was a much more ‘reasonable’ 175\/95, and Ms. Bambino decided to be a total show-off for the monitor. \u00a0So the doctor decided to once again increase my blood pressure medication (now it’s 3×3 pills per day), take blood samples to be on the safe side, and sent me home. \u00a0I’m to return again tomorrow afternoon for a repeat monitoring session.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I seem to have none of the ‘warning’ symptoms (besides a sometimes ‘stressed-head’) so that’s good.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with the funnest email I got today:<\/p>\n

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I decided to send them a small note letting them know that the total population of Iceland is a whopping 319,000<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, Friday. \u00a0I had no appointments today, and thus got to sleep in after wrangling Anna out of the house in time for school. \u00a0It was lovely. \u00a0I spent the afternoon parked on the sofa, pretty much exactly like this: Anyway. \u00a0The boys came home around 5 pm at which point I’d just napped forRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}