A different kind of day.......
We didn't get up too early today....Linda slept hard and long...good for her. She wrestled with a high pulse today but stayed ahead of the bone pain til late in the day....tonight her blood pressure is up a bit but her pulse is fine.....Friday she gets her mid cycle checkup.
I seemed to have an off day..high blood pressure for most of the day..couldn't get it to stay down. ...also had some bothersome side issues to worry about.....
We spent time with the counselor today...and are scheduled back next week. She is going to use a method of psychotherapy called EMDR ......Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing....it is a method to relieve distresses including anxiety and stress. EDMR is hard to explain but it basically has an effect on the way the brain processes information. .....where anxiety and stress causes the brain to not process information as it would do ordinarily, EDMR sets up for normal information processing by the brain. Another way of stating it is after therapy, the person sees disturbing things in a new and less distressing way.
That's about what we understand at this point.....hey.... if it works....we're in!
Tomorrow night we go to St. Charles for a dinner and a presentation on diet and cancer....
Linda's brother Marlin had a surgical procedure today as he had chest pains....his blood pressure has caused parts of his heart to enlarge and damaged his kidneys....they hope to have him on proper medications to prevent further damage.......our thoughts are with him.....but again, he is cranky enough to outlast us all. As he says...with age, you're going to get "something"......looks like he found his "something".
Our Oregon neighbors have been enjoying our Florida home as we were not able to be down there as we normally would...they are having a good time and called us today....we are just not used to this cold weather....we can't wait till cleared to travel to Florida...hopefully by February 12th.....
Dave
We didn't get up too early today....Linda slept hard and long...good for her. She wrestled with a high pulse today but stayed ahead of the bone pain til late in the day....tonight her blood pressure is up a bit but her pulse is fine.....Friday she gets her mid cycle checkup.
I seemed to have an off day..high blood pressure for most of the day..couldn't get it to stay down. ...also had some bothersome side issues to worry about.....
We spent time with the counselor today...and are scheduled back next week. She is going to use a method of psychotherapy called EMDR ......Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing....it is a method to relieve distresses including anxiety and stress. EDMR is hard to explain but it basically has an effect on the way the brain processes information. .....where anxiety and stress causes the brain to not process information as it would do ordinarily, EDMR sets up for normal information processing by the brain. Another way of stating it is after therapy, the person sees disturbing things in a new and less distressing way.
That's about what we understand at this point.....hey.... if it works....we're in!
Tomorrow night we go to St. Charles for a dinner and a presentation on diet and cancer....
Linda's brother Marlin had a surgical procedure today as he had chest pains....his blood pressure has caused parts of his heart to enlarge and damaged his kidneys....they hope to have him on proper medications to prevent further damage.......our thoughts are with him.....but again, he is cranky enough to outlast us all. As he says...with age, you're going to get "something"......looks like he found his "something".
Our Oregon neighbors have been enjoying our Florida home as we were not able to be down there as we normally would...they are having a good time and called us today....we are just not used to this cold weather....we can't wait till cleared to travel to Florida...hopefully by February 12th.....
Dave
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