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Bye then

I won't be posting here anymore

Whoever I have offended in my ignorance, please give me the chance to make amends and apologise. I have been less active on line for a few weeks due to vision problems resulting from my heart medications.

Enjoy your Omelette aux Fines Herbes!

Ron

Good morning Ron


I am sorry you've been suffering.

Here, mops brow.

Has your medication been changed ?


My omelette was very good. So was my trip to France

Good Morning to you Chips!

Well, not exactly suffering. I am prescribed 20mg simvastatin to lower my cholesterol (an average dosage they tell me) and whilst it does its job excellently and keeps me around the 'fasting' 4.8 mark, and I have been taking it for about 15 months or so, it occasionally troubles me with over- sensitivity to light. So to sit at the computer and read or write on a bright white screen is 'uncomfortable'. It increases my awareness of 'floaters' in the retina, which continually 'wash over' the print. It is also a little worrying; makes me think I'm going blind!

They had to take me off beta-blockers at about the time I went on simvastatin because it slowed down my heart rate too much. It was getting down to about 42 to 45 beats a minute! And I was continually very tired as a result.

But simvastatin has a very good press at the moment, with the news that it appears to reverse the build up of atheroma in the blood vessels of the heart and elsewhere in the body. It might be a 'cure' for certain kinds of heart disease, particularly at higher dosage levels.

But my 'early' generally mild angina (I don't experience much, if any pain; and only rarely feel a mild 'ache' in my left arm, which the doctor tells me could also be from my neck due to mild arthritis) is stable, in that it does not get worse and, if anything, seems to be puzzling the consultants! Neither my GP, nor me personally believe that I have the condition at all! No pain, no breathlessness on exercise,and only the occasional fairly rapid pulse when relaxed, which we all fail to understand!

But enough about my trials!

I'm glad you enjoyed your stay in France.

Do tell me why you use that soubriquet! Yes, I know: 'Chips with...'
but it left some of us guessing! I thought you had 'left the building' at some time after realising we hadn't spoken for some weeks and I couldn't find your name in the 'on-line' list!

Ron

Just to say that it was the implied finality of those words:

'Bye then... I won't be posting here anymore' that dismayed me a little!

Ron what a lot of information for me to absorb. You are having a hard time. Floaters in the retina . No wonder you thought you were going blind.

4.8 cholestoral is brilliant. I assume it's good ch. Don't know the difference between good and bad cholestorol, do you ?

Look after yourself, you old reprobate !

Regards to your lovely wife, Pat.