Ten pounds of water

  My weight hit 231 last week.  It has not been that high in the past.  It scares me.  I do not want to be one of those 500 pound guys.  I saw people like that coming into the ER.  If my weight just keeps going up when will it stop?

  I know a lot of it is excess water in my system.  I am on a water pill (Furosemide 40 mg a day). 
Well the last 24 hours I been taking one pill about each six hours.  No, I did not ask the doctor about doing it.

  Well after a few I can see the difference in my swollen left foot.  Before it looked so big that it looked like it was going to explode.  Right now it looks almost normal.
  My weight is 221 pounds now.  So I have lost ten pounds in less than two days.

  I have an appointment to see my doctor on the 31st.  I will tell him and see what he wants to do about my medication. 
 

  By the way … DO not do something like this without checking with your doctor.  All medications have side effects.  What I did was not smart.  I am still alive, right now, so it looks like I was lucky…  But take the medications that the doctor tells you to take and take it the way he, or she, tells you to take it.  Check with your doctor always.

  Early tomorrow the Charter install person is going to come out and hook up my Charter phone service.  It will be nice to have a regular phone service. 
  I am going to order a cordless phone set, two phones,  from Amazon soon.

  I been using Skype.  

  The only problem is that I am going to have four phone numbers;  the Skype number, Google voice number, my cell phone number and then the Charter number.
  Now the Charter number will become my home phone number.  I think I am going to away with the Skype number.  I have no idea what in the hell to do with my Google phone number.  I have had it for years and so far have not found a use for it.
  With the Skype number I could do a call in pod cast or I could record some YouTube videos and have someone that I interview using Skype.  So that is why I am thinking that maybe I will keep it.
  I can remember when I was a kid and we had a “party line” telephone.  Times have changed.