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[freyakitten]

The doctor says I'll live. Did the usual checks, and nothing usual is wrong.

Blood pressure was 101/55 sitting down, which was funky because the first number is 10 or so points higher than normal, and the second number 5 points lower. He checked standing blood pressure, which he doesn't normally do, but it was less than 10 points different so there's nothing he needs to check out further there.

So, the GP sent me off to get blood taken at the place he normally sends any samples he takes himself (so the results will get back a little quicker than if he'd taken the blood himself and then sent it to them) and prescribed nurofen for the aching joints, muscles, and come back if it doesn't go away. ;) A couple of other over-the-counters for other things, but no antibiotics since there is no infection (yay! First time I've gone to see the GP this year that I haven't had one) nor bronchitis, despite continued coughing. Coughing appears to be due to the puffed up glands and lymph nodes which appear to be responding to things going wonky by making things worse.

Palpating abdomen turned up ouchy liver and palpatable bowels but kidneys are fine. Blood tests will show if there is anything with the ouchy liver.

Lack of sleep appears to be just me. If it doesn't go away when I stop worrying about body wonkyness, I go back to the GP.

A lot of things the GP said today ended with "And if it doesn't go away by " arbitrary time span "come back..."

And I cooked roast beef for dinner, with roast purple potatoes and carrots and what's left of the gravy is now in the freezer for the next time I want a gravy fix. Ate like a pig. Much food in fridge.

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[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Waaah! You've got purple spuds! We can't get them here for weeks yet :-(

All good news on the wonky bod front! Just keep telling yourself that it's your unfortunate-but-not-unbearable lot in life that your have a Ferrari brain in the chassis of a high-mileage 1992 Astra :P :P :P

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

There's only one place in the CBD that sells the Purple Congo potatoes, here. $5.45/kilo! *wince* But it's worth it (in small quantities) both for taste and play-dough colour, so I grab them before the crate all sells.

And my high-mileage 1992 Astra chassis is running on only two cylinders this quarter (this is the complicated end of my car knowledge...) - hopefully next quarter we'll go up to three.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh ooh my SO walked in last night with seven kilos of Blue Moon spuds. Plus a number of packets of seeds for purple carrots, little round carrots, NZ spinach etc., since we're rebuilding our veg garden. Hurrah!

Three cylinders good. Four max, for reasonable "drivers". I'm on two and a half myself ATM :-)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Purple carrots? Are those the ones with bronze foliage, or the ones with purple not-orange flesh?

Reminds me I must get various capsicums and banana passionfruit seeds for planting in the spring...

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Would you believe I've never seen the green, erm, bronze parts? And the seed packets, having come from a specialist seed dealer, don't have pictures on them! AFAIK these are the kind sold years ago in Safeway as BetaSweet, i.e. purple on the outside and purply-orange on the inside. We'll have to wait and see :-)

Now that I'm usually well enough (bar the odd "crash" day, several of which I've had in the past ten days, sigh) to be out and about muchly, I was rather hoping we could just stick with our herb bed and herb and tomato pots, but my SO is determined, hee. I have to admit, the greens patch I grew this year for chooks and bunbun ended up being for all of us - especially the rocket, yum!, and the broad beans - but as our small-to-begin-with garden space just keeps shrinking, at least I think I've talked Himself out of doing zucchini and cucumbers and pumpkins this time...I'm waaay tired of having to kick my way through assorted vines all over the brick path :P

Banana passionfruit?

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Banana passionfruit! Yellow and shaped like a banana! I have to send away for the seeds, but they're one of about 6 types in one of the 'heirloom' seed catalogues I have.

As for pumpkins, if you have the energy, grow the vine up a pegboard. Then, when they fruit, you put something for the fruit to rest on on top of the pegs in the right position. That way, they don't break off, and the vine takes up less space. It is, however, difficult to make this work for large varieties like Queensland Blue. Or you could just grow a couple of Golden Nuggets which grow in small bushes and 6-8 fruits the size of a small fist.

Cucumbers go up walls, too, but zucchini won't.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, I have some Golden Nugget seeds left in my seed box - the ones I grew some from a year or so ago. Want some?

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Not Blue Moon, Royal Blue. Hee. Blue Moon is a rose - we used to grow them when I lived in Manchester...