Before our Puglia trip, a nurse at mum’s hospital told her: ‘Go on holiday. Don’t worry about your blood pressure. Eat whatever you want’ We all hoped she was right. Mum had a fantastic time eating carefree (gelato, rum babas, pasta, panini, salty prosciutto, potatoes cooked in dripping etc). But the moment we got home…
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High Blood Pressure
Yesterday mum went to get her blood pressure checked and her doctor produced something that looked like a 1950s bicycle pump and started puffing away as if he was blowing up a life raft (evidently digital equipment hasn’t made it to the British health services yet). He is a kindly young man, eager to find…