About
a year ago I went to the doctor because I just didn't feel right.
My heart seemed to be skipping beats all too noticeably. I'd wake up in the
middle of the night, sometimes in a sweat, and not be able to get back to
sleep. I'd feel my heart pounding in my chest when I laid down.
Even though visiting the doctor scares the heck out of me, after several weeks of feeling that my heart wasn't working right I forced myself to go. We talked about symptoms, what was going on in my life (lots of stress with dad's health problems), and I got an EKG. The EKG looked normal, and the doc told me that it was probably stress causing what I'd been feeling. Oh, but my thryoid levels were a little low, so he gave me this prescription.
This didn't allay all my fears, which resurfaced recently and led to a night in the ER at Parma Hospital (where my dad had died). But that's another story. The happy ending to the ER visit, and/or the pills have been working, and/or the huge reduction in my stress level since dad died all add up to feeling a whole lot better.
What stresses you out?
White on white
The gulls congregate at different spots in Edgewater Park for no reason apparent to me. This big flock spilled across the walkway, so I got to walk through them, causing a slow motion explosion of annoyed birds.
A connection with the story above: even when I was feeling my worst, walking along the lake at Edgewater was reassuring. My heart beat normally.
Where do you go to relax?