Did The Hot Weather Cause A Jump In My INR?
The last few readings of my INR have been.
Monday, July 8th – 3.2
Sunday, July 7th – 2.3
Saturday, July 6th – 2.4
Friday, July 5th – 2.6
Thursday, July 4th – 2.3
Wednesday, July 3rd – 2.2
Tesday, July 2nd – 2.5
Monday, July 1st – 2.8
Sunday, June 30th – 2.6
Saturday, June 29th – 2.6
I don’t think anybody would complain at those figures, as I’m supposed to keep the INR between 2 and 3, with a target value of 2.5.
I know from past experience, that in the summer, my Warfarin level is around 4 mg. a day. So generally, I take this amount every day, but if the INR is 2.8 or over, I take 3 mg. and if it is 2.2 or under I take 5 mg. It is a classic simple algorithm of the type I learned at Liverpool University in my degree in Control Engineering.
But notice how today, after the very hot and sunny day yesterday, my INR rose sharply. I shall be watching the figures intently.
Is It Cheaper To Use An Out Of London Dentist?
I’ve gone to the same dentist in Felixstowe off and on for nearly thirty years. I don’t have any specific problems, but I felt that because of this long and excellent experience, that it would be best for me to return, as my previous dentist in London has sold his business and retired.
Today it cost me £33.25 for the First Class ticket to Felixstowe and the private check-up was £18. That was all I spent, although when I visited my London dentist, I usually treated myself to lunch in Carluccio’s round the corner from his surgery.
Testing My INR On A Hot Day
The temperature in my house is 29.1 °C and as I had one test strip left in the current batch, I used it to test my INR,this afternoon when I came in from the heat outside.
The value was 2.3, which is only a little bit lower than the 2.6, it was this morning, when I took my daily check, the values of which are here.
Obviously, one test doesn’t give a conclusive result, but despite the heat, my INR has probably only changed within the limits of experimental error.
Thoughts On My Left Arm
My left arm isn’t good and it has never been since the humerus was broken by the school bully. My son asked me why I don’t floss my teeth and I think the answer is that my left hand can’t do it. After all, the only thing it’s done successfully with it, is fly an aircraft. A friend told me, that when she met me, she was surprised at the way I typed. I also always used to sit in the cinema or theatre with C to my right, so as that was for forty years, I’ve probably protected that arm all the time. One eminent doctor, said I was suffering from neglect syndrome, which is generally stroke-related. But I’ve avoided using my left arm for years and I’m very right-handed. Even playing tennis, I tend to run round my backhand and if I ever do a backhand it is two-handed.
I can remember going back to around twenty and when I drove my old Morris Minor, I’d often do the gear-changing without using the clutch. Did this mean that my left arm didn’t have to apply so much pressure?
A New Approach To Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease
Last night, I received my alumni e-newsletter from Liverpool University. There was this article about a new approach to fighting Alzheimer’s Disease. This is a key sentence.
We are using a new approach, harnessing the natural ability of sugars, based on the blood-thinning drug heparin, to block the action of BACE.
BACE is an enzyme, which according to the article causes some of the problems of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Let’s hope that the research succeeds.
Hopefully Farewell To University College Hospital For A Bit
In March last year I spent a couple of days in University College Hospital, after I collapsed at home on a very hot day.
Today, I went for a check-up and they told me to get lost, as my heart had now returned to normal. Obviously, I’ll have to keep taking the tablets for the rest of my life, but it does mean that I can live a much more normal life.
The consultant said that only a third of those, who end up in the hospital with the heart problem I had, make this sort of recovery.
So perhaps, I’ve been lucky. But then, I put it down to the luck that gave me a double dose of survival genes at conception. If the Jewish genes don’t poke a stick in the Devil’s eyes, the Huguenot ones will get her. Egging them on is a good helping of Devonian stubbornness.
I hope, there’s a few more years in this old London mongrel yet!
A Visit To The World’s Best Therapist
I had a bit of a shock this morning, as the news said that somebody I might know had died in tragic circumstances.
So I decided that I needed to explore some parts of the London Underground. I intended to have breakfast at Leon in Kings Cross station and then I intended to see if I could find the Underground maps in Lego.
I then visited all the maps before I finished up at Stratford, from where I took the Overground home.
As I often do, I met some interesting people, including a young lady accompanied by her charming baby, who with her partner had taken a train all the way back from Istanbul and soon were going to Denmark overland. Where do I find a lady of a compatible age to myself, who likes trains, architecture and football? Especially, to accompany me to Odessa to see the Potemkin Steps, watch England in Kiev and then come home via Warsaw and Berlin.
i certainly felt a lot better, as I say down to watch the cricket. But I still don’t know if I knew the person, who died.
My Health Goes Up And Down
This has been a rather up and down week for how I feel.
On Monday, I had an echo-cardiogram and I think it went pretty well. At least I was told it was better than the last one.
But then yesterday, I went to Brighton for lunch and coming back, the weather had broken and I was choking and wheezing, like I did as a child.
I was feeling bad in the the evening and I texted a friend, who has suffered similarly this winter. She texted back “Not cough but catarrh and intermittent headache.”
That could sum me up too and in some funny ways, I’m almost worse indoors.
I’m looking at how all this relates to my INR, which I’m now taking daily.
At least my INR is within its prescribed range and for the last few days it has been spot on 2.5, as measured by my CoaguChek device.
Just going to have a bath and put my head under the water. Temporarily I should add!
Have I Shortened My Life By Moving?
Accotrding to the new Longer Lives web site, I have moved from a healthy area, St. Edmundsbury to an unhealthy one, Hackney.
But then my lifestyle has hardly changed!
I did end up in hospital last year, but then the heating system in this house had something to do with it.
A Restaurant I Won’t Visit
As they seem to encourage smoking dollies to parade outside, I don’t think I’ll visit this restaurant.
A Restaurant I Won’t Visit
She put me off so much, I didn’t even look at the menu, but just walked by out of the smoke.
The Anonymous Widower 