low pressure

 The doctor suggested a new pill, one that should work to lower the heightened blood pressure. She is a good doctor, and she sees a problem with the high blood pressure. After the visit to the apothecary in the man street to get the prescription go home and take the half pill as prescribed. The other half shoots off and vanishes into a crack in the floorboards. In future, methods will have to be investigated to avoid such waste, perhaps breaking the pills with the fingernails is not the correct way to go about it.

Leave the house for a walk up the hill, through the park. The steep path out of the valley is hardly to be managed,  sit down at the first bench feeling weak. But after a while the effect relaxes, and walk all the way up to the viewing platform at the top of the hill. The weather is sunny here, Sit down on a bench, until the sun can be felt burning on the face. Move on to the enclosure for the rheas, they pick and peck at the fingers, and let their heads be stroked. They are very tame, and have no fear. Their big eyes and long eyelashes are strange, and their long flexible necks are like snakes.

Watch the ducks in the pond. And then walk back down into the town again.

In the early afternoon the car has to be taken to the garage. Leave the car and start to walk back home.

Start to feel weak and dizzy and so sit down. The distance to home is only a few kilometres, this should not be a problem. Sit down on a park bench and rest.

There is a phone call. It is the car repair place, they say that the car will need new brakes, and a spring is broken. This is all very tiresome. There is no help for it though, it will become necessary to walk back, collect the car again, and come back on Wednesday week to have the vehicle repaired. And then it will be ready for inspection.

Later on, back at home, measure the blood pressure again. It has never been so low inside the last year. The pulse is racing and the blood pressure is low. That little half-pill has an effect. No wonder that there is weakness and dizziness. Lie down and rest for a minute, and this turns into half an hours sleep