Sliding down the slope

[susandennis]

So... the doctor's office called at 4:30 to say I have no potassium in my system. And I've been eating my bananas. I'm sick of bananas. Turns out they didn't work anyway. Back to the drug store. No more tiny pink pills. This time we got mint green TORPEDOS! These things are about the size of the bananas! I have to take 2 now and 2 tomorrow and then 1 a day and she wants more blood on Wednesday.

At least this time I remembered to ask for caps that will enable me to get to the pills without using a fucking hammer.

On the way home, I decided that it was a perfect night for Teryaki chicken. I stopped at my favorite spot and my cheery friend was there. I walk in and she shrieks "SUSAN, MY FRIEND!!!". It's a trip. She did not realize I had called and started writing my order. I stopped her and so then she showed me my name in Korean and wrote it down for me to take. Cool, eh?

Comments

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I used to take those horse pills. Ugh.

The doc prescribed them when I showed up in the ER with my BP through the roof and my heart pounding like crazy. Apparently potassium helps keep your heart regulated.

I don't take them any more.

[kyrielle]

Your doctor loves pills way too much. Especially after only a week or two. Sheesh.

I hope they help. Meanwhile, if you google, there are other things besides bananas that you can eat that may help potassium levels (and if you're sick of bananas, maybe your mood...). Of course, keep taking the pills anyway, but maybe if you get it back up, you can convince the doc to let you hold it with food instead of pills? :P

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

That's so cool. I'd love to see what my name looks like in arabic, russian etc etc.....