Man oh Man

Yesterday morning I opened my eyes about two AM...And the world does not look right. Instead of staying in place as it should, it begins to spin round and round...What? Stop it, please!...I get out of bed and realize I am very nauseated. Am I sick or is this blasted spinning making me so dizzy I feel ill?...I sneak down to the bathroom so I don't wake Dad and open the toilet cover, looking down at the water and crouching over it, getting ready to do what will probably come next...Except it doesn't. All right. A decision to make. What is happening here? Will I go with the thesis of illness, or is it that-yet again- I have thought I can get away without high blood pressure medication and I can't...No way to determine that absolutely right now - no cuff- but will go with that hypothesis. And I swallow twice the regular, minute quantity of lisinopril that I usually take....Back to bed....When I wake up, I feel somewhat better, though my head aches. I hang around doing a few things, then head over to Walmart to take my bp...Regular old machine. Let's see what it can do..135 over 79. That's not so bad...Try again a few minutes later...107 over 69. Hey, that's low. But why am I still feeling so crummy?...I get on the highway in my creaky car and head toward Ringgold and the nearest Wachovia bank. I do my banking, drop in to visit Grace quickly, then head off to a used car lot I want to visit....But there is a CVS Pharmacy on the way - think I will stop and take my blood pressure once more. I really do not feel right...And I do, using a brand new state of the art machine...Whoa! No way I am doing anything but going right home and swallowing a complete pill - four times the amount I normally take...Hope I make it without blowing a valve....OK. Back safe and sound...So life resumes its normal course. I go to the pharmacy to pick up more medication I have had on file for several weeks. I determine to measure my bp once more....and...it is low, so low I feel dozey...Well, back to my regular dosage, I guess, and will just have to live with the low readings that are normal if I take any medication at all. Better than my head blowing up, right ?