up and down and down again

i had a bad session on thursday.
they put me in a chair, which seems to hate me because everytime i get put in a chair i go flat

so with an hour and a half to go, i start getting cramps, so i try to adjust the chair so that i can put me feet on the floor.
i blink, and when i open my eyes again, there are four nurses standing around me and an oxygen mask over my face. and i still have cramps. and then i throw up.

so, as you can imagine, friday was a bit of a write-off. i felt seedy all day and for some reason my knees weren't working properly.

so, as you can imagine i approached last night's session with some trepidaton. as indeed did the nurse-tech. i was in a bed and only targeted 3.5l (i usually try to do 4 on a saturday)

the nurse-tech hovered, taking my blood pressure every 45 minutes and asking me if i was alright everytime i cahnged position on the bed.

my arterial line kept clogging, so i reduced my blood flow to 300 ml/min after and hour and after my bp dropped to 103/39 (which is about average for me during a session) she reduced my target to 3.1l.

i kept telling her that i was fine and i was. it was adrian in the chair(!) next to me who started going flat, although she never passed out.

i did my four hours, came off at 120/47 and felt fine

up until this morning when i was hanging my washing out on the line, and my bp took a sudden drop and i had to sit down before falling over.

i now have an excuse not to do anything else for the rest of the day. there is always an upside.