GIP, and health stuff
I present you with a Conflicted!RatCreature icon, a RatCreature subjected to warring influences... *g*
Like, for example right now I'm pondering whether I ought to heed my physician's advice to take up some endurance exercise I would "enjoy" or stick with the baser instincts of my inner Sloth!RatCreature.
I think I mentioned before that I went to get checked out because I recently got dizzy and fainted (which frankly sucked, not least because I banged my knee when I fell down after passing out, and well, there was the general unpleasantness of loosing consciousness unexpectedly too). The good news is that there's nothing wrong at all in my blood tests, apparently all the things they check for were healthy, my EKG was normal too, though my BP was a rather high, so that wasn't any help with an explanation either, as a low BP might have been. I suspect a significant influence on my BP might be the near panicky state I tend to be in when I am seeing a doctor, at least my pulse was apparently significantly slower during the EKG when the doctor wasn't in sight (and IIRC at least last year when the nurse checked it when I was in the hospital for the eye thing they never mentioned it being high either), but I am still to get that checked out further. The bad news is that he suggested I ought to do some endurance sport to strengthen my circulation in reaction to the fainting thing, as there's apparently nothing really wrong with me, and I just ought to come back if should happen to faint again.
I mean, I'm sure such exercise would be good for me, but... The only sports I've ever done voluntarily was a bit of Qi Gong some years ago, mostly to help with some back pain I had then, but it's not like I stuck with it once I had gotten mostly rid of the back problems. Swimming would be a hassle to do regularly and I don't own a bike (besides, I kind of vowed when I was eleven or so to never get on a bike again, and so far I haven't broken that promise), so that pretty much leaves me with jogging as the obvious option. I have trouble to see that happening.
It not that I don't acknowledge that in theory it would be better if I was less sedentary, but in practice my only concession to that is that I favor stairs for anything on the sixth floor or below even if there's an elevator, since I'm used to walking up that much anyway as my apartment is unfortunately located like this, and well, obviously I have to walk for many errands too, since I don't own a car. But in general my strategy is sadly a sloth-like avoidance of movement, and I find the thought of running around without need a bit bewildering. Also I suspect I'd feel embarrassed.
OTOH I found getting dizzy and loosing consciousness rather scary even without any serious underlying cause making it worse, and I would like to prevent it from happening again, and obviously there's that whole "exercise is good for you in any case" thing, that gets shoved into your face everywhere.
I also made a Geek!RatCreature icon. Well, actually it looks more like a MadScientist!RatCreature icon, which is why I decided to add the text:
Like, for example right now I'm pondering whether I ought to heed my physician's advice to take up some endurance exercise I would "enjoy" or stick with the baser instincts of my inner Sloth!RatCreature.
I think I mentioned before that I went to get checked out because I recently got dizzy and fainted (which frankly sucked, not least because I banged my knee when I fell down after passing out, and well, there was the general unpleasantness of loosing consciousness unexpectedly too). The good news is that there's nothing wrong at all in my blood tests, apparently all the things they check for were healthy, my EKG was normal too, though my BP was a rather high, so that wasn't any help with an explanation either, as a low BP might have been. I suspect a significant influence on my BP might be the near panicky state I tend to be in when I am seeing a doctor, at least my pulse was apparently significantly slower during the EKG when the doctor wasn't in sight (and IIRC at least last year when the nurse checked it when I was in the hospital for the eye thing they never mentioned it being high either), but I am still to get that checked out further. The bad news is that he suggested I ought to do some endurance sport to strengthen my circulation in reaction to the fainting thing, as there's apparently nothing really wrong with me, and I just ought to come back if should happen to faint again.
I mean, I'm sure such exercise would be good for me, but... The only sports I've ever done voluntarily was a bit of Qi Gong some years ago, mostly to help with some back pain I had then, but it's not like I stuck with it once I had gotten mostly rid of the back problems. Swimming would be a hassle to do regularly and I don't own a bike (besides, I kind of vowed when I was eleven or so to never get on a bike again, and so far I haven't broken that promise), so that pretty much leaves me with jogging as the obvious option. I have trouble to see that happening.
It not that I don't acknowledge that in theory it would be better if I was less sedentary, but in practice my only concession to that is that I favor stairs for anything on the sixth floor or below even if there's an elevator, since I'm used to walking up that much anyway as my apartment is unfortunately located like this, and well, obviously I have to walk for many errands too, since I don't own a car. But in general my strategy is sadly a sloth-like avoidance of movement, and I find the thought of running around without need a bit bewildering. Also I suspect I'd feel embarrassed.
OTOH I found getting dizzy and loosing consciousness rather scary even without any serious underlying cause making it worse, and I would like to prevent it from happening again, and obviously there's that whole "exercise is good for you in any case" thing, that gets shoved into your face everywhere.
I also made a Geek!RatCreature icon. Well, actually it looks more like a MadScientist!RatCreature icon, which is why I decided to add the text: