It's all downhill from here

My blood pressure has been borderline for several years, even with 90 minutes of cardio a day. Since stopping the daily bike rides back in October, I got a home monitor on the advice of my doctor, and it's been creeping up as I expected it to, but yesterday for the 2nd time it spiked up enough to raise a real alarm, so I decided "now" rather than "maybe after the holidays."

Today the doctor put me on a base level drug. This is the first time in my life I've had a drug that I will have to take every day forever (or one of its cousins). It was inevitable given my family history (my mom's BP is frightening), and blood pressure control meds at the level I'm likely to need for quite a while to come are cheap and straightforward, so I'm not all that bummed really. Beats destroying my kidneys.

Oh yeah, and I just ordered my first pair of bifocals.

Pass the Geritol.