{"id":31248,"date":"2024-12-23T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31248"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:14:15","slug":"on-bp-meds-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31248","title":{"rendered":"On BP meds&#8230;forever&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just got back from the doctor appointment and yep, I&#8217;m on BP meds forever starting today&#8230;it&#8217;s a tiny hexagonal blue pill called Lisinop that is supposed to be the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; of BP meds&#8230;and I actually laughed out loud when the clerk told me the cost for 30 days&#8230;2 bucks&#8230;so I think I can afford 24 bucks a year&#8230;only got 30 days so they can check to make sure it&#8217;s working correctly on January 13th and then they will give me 90 days at a time&#8230;so I guess it&#8217;s no big deal&#8230;there was no winter storm out here as was forecast so it was a breeze getting in and out of the alley and now I&#8217;m in until late next week&#8230;I did break down and buy one more BAH to make Wed with all of the other fixins&#8230;stuffing and green bean casserole with mashed potatoes and gravy&#8230;oh, and some Hawaiian rolls to go with it&#8230;so now, it&#8217;s cocktail time tonight and I may eat a handful of pretzels, too, since nothing I did had any effect on my BP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just got back from the doctor appointment and yep, I&#8217;m on BP meds forever starting today&#8230;it&#8217;s a tiny hexagonal blue pill called Lisinop that is supposed to be the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; of BP meds&#8230;and I actually laughed out loud when the clerk told me the cost for 30 days&#8230;2 bucks&#8230;so I think I can afford &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=31248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On BP meds&#8230;forever&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-31248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31249,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31248\/revisions\/31249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}