This has really been a strange week so far. I got a not so great review, but on the positive side two of my books were released this week. So I've spent more time promoting this week than I've ever done and it's only Tuesday.

Worked my butt off on the job today and then I left at 12:30 for a doctor's appointment.  It took me two hours to get there by bus. Lucky for me there was a cool tropical breeze outside on the way there. Too bad it was gone by the time I got out. I was sweating like a pig by the time I made it home.

The funny thing about going to the doctor is that they never tell you what you want to hear. I've suffered from Hypertension since I was eighteen years old. And for the last couple of nights I have been coughing. I already know it's Post Nasal Drip, but the doctor told me that it could be cause by my new high blood pressure medicine. How come every thing they prescribe now have more side effects than the ailment? So he put me back on a medicine I used before this one. The only reason it was changed was because I was living in the bathroom even though I was assured it wasn't a water pill. Okay, so why give this one back to me? Then he asked me if I ate Chinese food on Saturday. No, I ate pizza on Saturday. "Stay away from pizza, and bagels and Chinese food. Too much salt." He should have just stuck a stake in my heart. Hello, I'm from New Orleans. We eat here. Seriously now. I eat a bagel every morning for breakfast. Before that it used to be a sausage biscuit from Popeyes. If I knew the bagel would give me fluid I would have stuck to the sausage biscuit. Oh, it still has salt but at least I would have been eating meat. What in the hell am I going to eat for breakfast now? Cereal, no, the milk tears my stomach up. Fruit, no, the citrus tears my stomach up. Grits, no time and instant grits suck. Plain toast - no, it's bread and it has salt and starch. I guess I'll just drink coffee. I'm going to be living in the bathroom anyway with the fluid pill. (smile)

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