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My name is Cliff and I'm a procrastinator....

I have been kicking around participating in a meme. I was tagged by Don, of Don's Mind fame and it involved 7 weird habits I have. One of the habits I have is being a procrastinator. This one almost proved to be a deadly one. Let me explain...

One of the things that I procrastinate is refilling my medications. I have prescriptions for hypertension, diabetes, and depression. One time I went days without refilling my depression meds and found out the hard way that you don't go off this one cold turkey.

This time it was my blood pressure meds I neglected to refill, as I had to get a new script from my doctor. I was wrong on one of the prescriptions, but the other had to be rewritten, and the good folks at my HMO (think head of Germany in world war 1) stopped covering this particular medicine. This morning when I woke up, I was very light headed, had headaches, and my blood pressure was 191/101. I kept this all to myself until this afternoon when I told my wife. We couldn't get a hold of our PCP, so we went to the urgent care center. The doctor made sure I didn't have a stroke then wrote me a prescription for an alternate medicine and told me to see my PCP next week.

I feel better, but I also feel stupid.

Comments

Busy Bee Suz said…
Oh my gosh.....you can't mess around like that. Not a good thing.
Glad you are well now, but don't do it again. Consider that your slap on the wrist!!!
November 28, 2008 10:33 PM
david5258 said…
cliff-glad u r feeling better. please keep current on your meds. an 80 point variance in your bp reading is nothing to sneeze at.
david
November 28, 2008 10:39 PM
Anonymous said…
CLIFF!

Do I need to scold you???

(I really think not. Sounds like you paid the price!)

Glad to hear you're okay and will change your procastination ways!

When it comes to medication refills anyway. ;)

Nurse Bella
November 28, 2008 10:49 PM
J. Moses said…
Consider this another friendly slap on your wrist man. Get that stuff taken care of WHEN you need it, if not well before! 80 point differences should be nothing to sneeze at. I know when I've had an 80 point difference in mine, it's been enough to require me to get looked at, but it's also been very rare and not a chronic thing.

Please be careful! We want ya around and blogging for a while longer!
November 29, 2008 3:48 AM
dons_mind said…
there are lots of really fine things to procrastinate on...however, ones medicines is not something that should be put off!! glad you're ok...
November 29, 2008 8:51 AM
Anonymous said…
Cliff I am glad you are okay!!!

I am a procrastinator as well. Boy the bone head things I have done by putting matters off.

Lots of Stupid Tax stories in there.

We should write a book about the idiot things we have done by procrastinating. We should earn some money for our talents!!! Hehe...
November 29, 2008 10:01 AM
Jessica said…
Cliff!! I better not hear about something like this happening again!! You are important and you better be taking care of yourself.

I too am glad that you are feeling better and that you are OK.
November 29, 2008 12:55 PM
coltfan said…
that is very dangerous cliff. I myself procratinate but notwhen it comes to my health .
November 29, 2008 11:39 PM
Jen said…
Eeeeks!! Glad you took care of it before it took care of you!
November 30, 2008 8:27 PM
Michelle said…
Don't procrastinate on your meds Cliff all of us would love to keep you around for a very long time. I know your wife would.
November 30, 2008 10:37 PM
HWHL said…
That is scary, Cliff!
I have the opposite problem with BP... mine is chronically low... so low in fact, I have FAINTED from it (which is not fun, let me tell you).

However, I'm on 2 meds as well and one of my meds (Topamax, for migraine prevention) will SMACK me if I miss it...

So, yes, the POINT of the story is: Take Your Meds! :-)
December 02, 2008 9:19 AM
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