I am such a slacker...I know!

(I originally wrote this post 3 days again...)

OK, it's a Friday night and I am at home doing this! What is up with that? Could be the 11 hours of work I did today...

...or it could have been the 150 people Chinese New Year party that mom and I hosted at work today...
...or it could have been the 3 Home Depots I went to looking for competitor product for our new account...
...or least of all, it could have been the one hour twenty minute line that I stood in at the DMV (enough said).

So ya, I am pooped...beyond belief...and the past few days (really the past week) has been full of "bad days" health wise...I thought I had the flu, then I thought I might of had a line infection, then I was just really tired. I dunno, maybe I just wore myself out...so I went and took a blood test to make sure that I didn't have an infection that I didn't know about (blah blah blah)...so like usual my liver enzymes were a tad high but lower than usual (probably do to my new Milk Thistle regimen)...but my BNP was high!! That isn't good and Saggar won't be happy to see that. For those of you who don't know what BNP means here is the definition below: A brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) test measures the amount of the BNP hormone in your blood. BNP is made by your heart and indicates how well your heart is working. Normally, only a low amount of BNP is found in your blood. However, if your heart has to work harder than usual over a long period of time, such as from heart failure, the heart releases more BNP, increasing the blood level of BNP. The BNP level will drop when treatment for heart failure is working. Eek! Ya...now lets come back to reality...4 years ago, my BNP was off the charts (like in the thousands=your dying) and then dropped under 100 (which is normal) after I got treatment...but it is slightly high again...grrr! I think it is took much stress on my heart=too much stress in my life! So that kind of freaked me out... Then I looked at my carbon dioxide...it was low! That is probably from the Lasix though... My red blood cell count was high... (due to the transfer of extra oxygen to my lungs) My Hemoglobin was one point too high (again due to extra oxygen transferring throughout my body... Twice this week I woke up with heart palpitations during the middle of the night... So it looks like my heart failure might be causing this "sluggish" feeling that I have had all week. I think it is time for a vacation... Ok that is my medical update for the week...