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I thought the baby's face said, "please tell me I'm not related..."

I thought the baby's face said, "please tell me I'm not related..."

I thought the baby's face said, "please tell me I'm not related..."

I've played Hearts since summer camp, and various card games and mah-jong, triple-play while caring for parents in Arizona...   I've just retired and would love to join some retired/gay card group in London - but have yet to find...   one of my early retirement goals is to learn bridge... 

There was a guy in Pittsburgh who had one because of DUIs. He also did porn while wearing it.

https://www.sleepyboy.com/show_escort.php?id=60628&version=2
He's fresh out of jail. Shame he's a top, I do like the chav aesthetic.

While it's been 43 degrees (Celsius) here in Canberra today, I understand there has been a little snow in parts of North America.

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Oh ... When friends asked me if I ever had Five Guys, I said "Yes" but didn't know it was a restaurant. 😈 
 

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WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM A 91-year-old mom shares her hilarious take on the Thanksgiving stuffing debate, weighing in on in-the-butt...  

Split the difference: get a hybrid (or a plug-in hybrid if you want more electric.).🤪

Subtle… very subtle 🙂…. Vegans are exceptionally cute… but but not sure I can eat a whole one… 🤪🤣

I didn’t read the op to say his discovery of  high blood pressure was a minor issue. Rather it was during the course of dealing with a minor issue he discovered he had high blood pressure. Many people experience this if they are not used to going to doctors because often high blood pressure has no symptoms until you have a stroke or heart attack. 
I suffer from hypertension but have been on treatment for over 10 years and keep it under control. I bought a bp monitor and use it about every two weeks just to keep track of my pressure. I am also under the care of a cardiologist who sees me once a year. It runs in my family so we are all used to dealing with it. 

Subtle… very subtle 🙂…. Vegans are exceptionally cute… but but not sure I can eat a whole one… 🤪🤣

And, to add to what @Just966 posted;  a single data point taken once a month in the Doctors office (situated at top of a hill, and her office is upstairs in an old Victorian) doesn't tell me anything.   I've never smoked, alcohol has dropped to (almost) nothing since start of year, since retiring at the end of September I no longer drink coffee, my exercise has increased an order of magnitude, most days 15-17k steps, some days over 25k steps.   Besides my better judgement some days I've managed vegan lunches 🙂
I remember my attitude changed when I read "Acceptable Risks" by Jonathan Kwitny (1992?); especially as I had many close friends who were dying, and at the time was an AIDs buddy.  Being a second set of ears in meetings with doctors was critical, even more so if we came to the appointment with real questions, real data.  I view this as an opportunity to have more data in my once a month 10 minute appointment.    
I guess what I'm trying to say is: at this point I'd rather have too much information than a single data point in stressful surroundings.
And, in the past week I've learnt a lot :  my pressure is consistently much lower at certain times of the day as well as overnight...   watching porn had virtually no impact...   and vegan lunches didn't harm me 😁

My issue is that my blood pressure fluctuates widely. I am on blood pressure medication and whenever I have it takes in the Drs office it is high. At home on a cuff it has been generally okay but also have times it runs quite high and then will come back down. At one point Dr added a low dose diuretic which brought it down but then started being too low and was having periods when I would get light headed and would need to sit down. This increased in frequency and so he discontinued diuretic as was too low even in clinic. Now is going up and down again and that was why I was thinking continuous at home  be helpful to get a handle on what it really is. I appear to have white coat syndrome as well as always sig higher in clinic then at home. Thought a continuous might give a better idea. I am 70 but in decent shape biking 30-50 kms a day in summer, xcountry ski 10-18 kms a day in winter and play pickle ball for a couple of hours 2-3 times a week. When I read the original post thought continuous might give a better idea. 

Good morning 
Primary care physician here.   I work in a mid-size physician group on the east coast (not NYC) & do this (treating patients high pressure) for work all day long, so I'm familiar with your issue & I'm rooting for you to conquer it!
You do not have a "minor" problem.  You have hypertension,  also known as high blood pressure.  Its in the family of cardiovascular disease.
Its dangerous & potentially lethal. 
Its the number 1 killer of Americans (I am aware you live in the UK but I did not investigate UK health statistics),  which means more deaths than cancer.  Are you aware of that?
If your doctor told you that you had cancer, would consider it to be a "minor" issue? 
I'm not trying to be indelicate or confrontational but (hopefully) educational.   Your health future depends on you fully understanding & controlling your blood pressure.  Gay folk are wonderful & beautiful and we can't afford to lose one of us prematurely.
Strong work on the exercise! It may help. Keep it up.
A) Other interventions to consider:
1) lose 15 lbs (if that applies to you)
2) significantly reduce (best is stop) your alcohol intake. Maximum is 2 drinks per week (on 2 different days, not 2 drinks on 1 day).
3) reduce your salt intake. (For example- canned soup has crazy high amounts of sodium)
4) stop all nicotine products (yes, even vaping is smoking).
B) Is your blood pressure controlled? If not, are you on max dose ramipril 20 mg a day? If so, are you only on ramipril? Most people with high blood pressure need 2 (or more!) medications to adequately control their blood pressure.  When is your next appointment with your primary care physician?
I wish you all the best in your journey in getting healthier!
Josh
 

Thank you for all you’ve been doing! It is appreciated!!!

You deserve a medal! 👏👏👏

Greetings folks...
As you might have noticed, this site has been offline since around mid-day Tuesday.   Our prior hosting provider decided that they are unable to continue hosting our website and had ended service to us.  Unfortunately they did not provide any notification to me about this decision and I was forced to move the site to a new server without any sort of heads up.  This includes arranging for the new hosting company, configuring the new server to meet the technical requirements, getting a copy of our current data, restoring that data (over 300GB of files), recovering the database (over 18.5 million records in that database taking up 11GB of space for the DB alone), and reconfiguring the software itself to run in the new environment.  
While migrating there was also some technical issues that I ran into that required me to coordinate with Invision's technical support team.  So that back and forth added additional time to the mix as well.  
And to pile on further… all of this occurred while I'm traveling for my day job. So I've been doing this while in a hotel in between doing my day job on the road.  
There are most likely several other things that will need to be fixed still and I'm working through them.  For example, email may only be partially working.  I still need to setup things like SPF and DKIM for the new server so our emails don't flag as spam.  There are other settings that might need to be redone to work in the new server as well that I'm not thinking about yet.  (As you might have imagined, I've not had much sleep during this whole process.)
But anyway... you get the idea.  No... we're not going anywhere!  This was a minor setback but we'll continue to move forward.  Thank you all for your understanding and support!
Rob

Here are some pics of this, in my opinion, beautiful note (I dont like the euro notes at all):
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/polymer-50-pound-note