Red Mosquito

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:going to have my hearing checked this afternoon. been listening to dark matter too much.

Would love to know what your audiogram looks like. I’ll post mine if I can find it

Apparently my hearing is perfect. She did say that once we hit 40, our brains don’t process sounds as well, so while nothing is wrong with my ears, my mind is becoming more and more feeble, which I already knew.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Bammer let’s face it we’re old men now are lives are over

Higgs wrote:Look after yourself Peeps. Hope today is a better one.

Peeps wrote:

Higgs wrote:Look after yourself Peeps. Hope today is a better one.

thank you sir. i went to the hospital more for a precaution. this happens about once a year and my anxiety about it doesnt help. oddly enough my bp was 118/79 which i would have expected more like 150/110

I have medicine for this type of situation but am always worried about the timing of taking it. it is a beta blocker and will slow my heart down but what if i take it just as it slows down normally?

Jorge wrote:Burt, don't go to Subway. Have some self respect

BurtReynolds wrote:

Jorge wrote:Burt, don't go to Subway. Have some self respect

I'm not proud of it.

spike wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Higgs wrote:Look after yourself Peeps. Hope today is a better one.

thank you sir. i went to the hospital more for a precaution. this happens about once a year and my anxiety about it doesnt help. oddly enough my bp was 118/79 which i would have expected more like 150/110

I have medicine for this type of situation but am always worried about the timing of taking it. it is a beta blocker and will slow my heart down but what if i take it just as it slows down normally?

I would think the dose is small enough that it’s not going to overly slow your heart rate to dangerous levels.

Peeps wrote:

spike wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Higgs wrote:Look after yourself Peeps. Hope today is a better one.

thank you sir. i went to the hospital more for a precaution. this happens about once a year and my anxiety about it doesnt help. oddly enough my bp was 118/79 which i would have expected more like 150/110

I have medicine for this type of situation but am always worried about the timing of taking it. it is a beta blocker and will slow my heart down but what if i take it just as it slows down normally?

I would think the dose is small enough that it’s not going to overly slow your heart rate to dangerous levels.

that is correct and its easy to say to someone else...its different when its you

wease wrote:

Peeps wrote:

spike wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Higgs wrote:Look after yourself Peeps. Hope today is a better one.

thank you sir. i went to the hospital more for a precaution. this happens about once a year and my anxiety about it doesnt help. oddly enough my bp was 118/79 which i would have expected more like 150/110

I have medicine for this type of situation but am always worried about the timing of taking it. it is a beta blocker and will slow my heart down but what if i take it just as it slows down normally?

I would think the dose is small enough that it’s not going to overly slow your heart rate to dangerous levels.

that is correct and its easy to say to someone else...its different when its you

Are you not taking it on a regular basis?

Peeps wrote:

wease wrote:

Peeps wrote:

spike wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Higgs wrote:Look after yourself Peeps. Hope today is a better one.

thank you sir. i went to the hospital more for a precaution. this happens about once a year and my anxiety about it doesnt help. oddly enough my bp was 118/79 which i would have expected more like 150/110

I have medicine for this type of situation but am always worried about the timing of taking it. it is a beta blocker and will slow my heart down but what if i take it just as it slows down normally?

I would think the dose is small enough that it’s not going to overly slow your heart rate to dangerous levels.

that is correct and its easy to say to someone else...its different when its you

Are you not taking it on a regular basis?

its metoprolol Succ er 25 mg. only have to take it when my heart rate jumps