Near complete waste of an afternoon today, for obvious reasons. The one possible minor positive is that I’ve been asked to record my BP for another week and if they end up not showing much improvement then I may get referred to a cardiologist. I’m really, really desperate for the “feeling shit” bit to stop now.
In this case, they’re Hungarian Black. I have no ripe Jalapenos yet. There was a little pickling solution left over from a previous pickling session, so I went over the plants and removed any of the chiles that were black. Whilst on the hunt I found this little mutant.
I’m pretty sure that’s a Zitava. I’ll add it to the ones I already have drying.
The small number of chiles I did get looked to be sufficient to fill a small jar so everything came together nicely. I used up most of the pickling solution and got my first jar of pickled chiles for this year.
To enjoy the leopards eating this hate merchant’s face?
I wonder how soon he’ll be aligning himself with Reform UK Ltd. or Reclaim?
It’s a shame we have to let him back in, really. Perhaps we could redirect the plane to Rwanda?
Readings from today. If anything they’re a little higher in the morning and evening than I’ve been getting recently.
At least my heart rate wasn’t quite as crazy in the afternoon. I’ve no idea what triggers it though.
No idea whether it’s going to get any bigger, but I can hope 😀
I took my first dose of Doxazosin yesterday evening, along with all the other meds I’m supposed to take at that time. There was no major issue then, but this morning I didn’t feel that great and I’ve been feeling exceptionally tired and shaking all of the afternoon and most of the evening.
I think the BP readings tell the story, really.
My concern about the high heart rate is growing, I have to say. It might be ok during hard exercise, but it doesn’t seem healthy that it is at that level for several hours when I’m effectively doing nothing.
I’ve also had a very upset stomach all day. If that doesn’t stop by next week I think I might be asking about alternatives to the Doxazosin.
My first attempt wasn’t looking entirely healthy, so I binned it and decided to have another go, having done a bit more research.
The proportion of salt seems to be something of a movable feast, with some people saying 2% of the weight of the cabbage, some saying 3% and some even more. I’ve gone with 2.7%, purely because that’s how it happened to measure out.
I’ve also packed it a lot tighter in the jar than the first time around, having seen someone use a “plunger” to pack theirs into the jars. I don’t have a suitable plunger, so I just used a large spoon to push it down.
There also appear to be many variations in the amount of time the ferment should run for. The shortest I’ve seen being four days and the longest three weeks. I’m not sure what I’m going to go with there, but there’s time to do a little more work on that yet.
So, here it is.
Hopefully this time we’ll get around to eating it.
It’s cucumbers with every meal at the moment 😀
So much so that I forgot to take a reading in the evening.
In the afternoon my daughter and I moved a sofa out of her workroom in the cellar and up the stairs so we can get rid of it. It’s not that heavy — just a small two-seater — but by the time we’d got it to the door at the top of the stairs I was barely able to stand up. I lay on the floor and poured sweat for about ten minutes 🙁 Got the job done eventually though, even if I was good for nothing else that day.
Because I use the dispensary at the surgery, it can take a few days for them to sort out. So I’m now taking Ramipril, Indapamide, Spironolactone, Doxazosin and Sertraline, some in the morning, some in the evening. I believe that’s the limit of what the GP can prescribe for me, so we’ll have to see what happens next. I suspect it’s going to turn into a major fag if he’s still not happy with my blood pressure in a couple of weeks.
