OOOOH K

You know.....it's always something.....this week I had my regularly scheduled bloodwork drawn. Later that evening I was out with a friend and I got a call from my doctor's office to see "if I was OK" when I asked why, I was told that the tests had shown I had an extremely dangerous level of potassium (K) in my blood. A condition called hyperkalemia. This potassium build up is caused, in earnest, by failing kidneys, but in my case it was also exacerbated by a drug I've been taking to control blood pressure (this may all be relative to some of those down days I spoke of in the last post). So now instead of using that particular drug, I'm on a new one now 3x daily. And so we'll see.....more bloodwork in the coming week will confirm whether or not we've addressed the problem .