Awake, early, go downstairs, bathroom and then realise that the house is deserted, but for the cat. And that cat wants food, and thus it gets its food. The cat is not fat, it appears to have lost weight. Hopefully this is just a sign of ageing, and not a warning of something else.
Make the usual breakfast, go upstairs and read the news. Try todays world puzzle and fail. The five letter word that was required was unusual.
Read the news, and realise that the chances are good that fascism will take over the United States, and along with it the free world. People will realise what it means to live under a dictatorship and that once they have allowed it, it will be hard to return to the lost freedom. It is their own fault.
Start to feel strange, unwell. There is dizziness, and the urgent desire to lie down. Also, start to feel cold and tired. Take the blood pressure pills and lie down on the made bed and cover with a spare blanket. After an hour, things are better again.
Decide to measure the blood pressure. There is an instrument for this in the medical things. Try it out, its batteries are no longer functional. Put in fresh batteries, then try it. The reading is impossibly high. Try it again, this time they are only high. Try it once more, and the results are much the same. This means that the blood pressure is too high. Is this old body finally failing?
It will be necessary to speak to the doctor about this.
If it is the moderate alcohol consumption, then that will have to stop. And the coffee will have to stop as well. Neither of these things are the sole purpose in life, but they have got to be a pleasant habit.
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