Thursday, March 26, 2026
1945 Marines secured Iwo Jima
1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio,
1967 Pope Paul VI published encyclical Populorum progressio
1997 39 bodies were found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides in California
1999 A jury in Michigan found Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man
2016 US primary elections: Bernie Sanders won Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska
2025. Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on all car imports to the U.S. effective April 2.
In bed at 9:30, awake at 2;30 for a pit stop, still awake at 3:20 so I did my weigh-in & BP, up. 0330 155/77/66, 5 minutes later 140/70/66 85 207.8. 49/54/30 Rain expected this afternoon.
Morning meds at 10:20 a.m. Ranolazine at 7 a.m. and 7:35 p.m.
Symptoms: I thought I sensed some heart fluttering or racing as I lay in bed after waking at 2:30, but I'm not sure. It was the same sensation I had one night in the hospital, which I reported to a nurse, but forgot to mention to Dr. Tsemo, who I had some difficulty communicating with because of her rather thick accent (and perhaps my hearing). Before hospitalization on 3/19, BP had rather consistently been in the 120s and 1teens; since then it has been higher. Today's 155/77 led me to take a second reading after several more minutes of rest, with a reading of 140/70. I also had some light pain and tingling in the fingertips of my right hand. GOOD NEWS; the lightheadedness I experienced yesterday is much better today, morning and afternoon. I was able to walk in the house without cane, walker, or rollater and I had no trouble driving to and from the VA for an abdominal CT scan at 3 this afternoon. On the other hand, I was so tired from walking from the street level parking lot to the medical center, I had to sit down on one of the chairs by the VA Police window in the entry area, just as I did last Thursday morning before being taken to the ER and being admitted as an inpatient. I was also able to climb the basement stair twice after I got home, first to check water seepage near the filtration and softening equipment and secondly, to apply some titanium white acrylic paint as "white out" to a portion of Geri's protest sign that she will carry Saturday at the No Kings demonstration. She wanted to redo one of the words on her sign: "Dictators Fall When the People Rise." Overal, a good day with fingers crossed for tomorrow.
Words of Wisdom. “I’m old, you know, and I see things repeated, and something that is very common is the change people feel toward someone when they meet them. At one time they ridiculed and hated them, and then they confess that they now like them, because they saw them as they were. Or a friend told them how kind or funny they were, and conversions keep happening. I think we need to imagine people as loved and kind and funny, and any dislike is based on our limited knowledge and kindness. What I’m saying is that most of the time, we are the problem, and we need to constantly adjust our vision.”—Marian Seldes
The Pitt. We watched series 1, episode 8 tonight, with a story line that included an ER patient serviced for bradycardia, low blood pressure, low heart rate (30), etc. Like me in the VA ER last Thursday, except the fictional patient's problem was caused by the wires of his pacemaker getting pulled out.
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