unintentional cardio

to say the least, i didn’t need any caffeine on friday…

…and i won’t be touching that homeopathic stuff again.

it’s this arnicare stuff. they have a few different products. it’s all natural, homeopathic, etc, etc. they make a gel nik had used on her knees and encouraged me to try. seemed like it worked from time to time. then she found out they had pellets you put under your tongue, so she got some of those so i could tote em around when i work. they were pretty ineffective, but then on da gram the other day i saw an ad for another product they did which allegedly helped with leg cramps and sleep. while i don’t get cramps IN my sleep, i figured it would help me wake up less stiff, so i got em and popped two on thursday night.

then came friday morning, where i sent my wife this text…

kinda scary

and then took a shower, whereupon i sent this one after…

a little more scary

it got as high as 160, and then…

almost more scary

DUH-ROP!

all over the place. it should be noted between the one forty something and the one sixty i got up, walked the length of the house to get milk for vitamins and aaa batteries because i had noticed the ones in the pulse oximeter thing were “HEROES” brand which i’ve neither seen nor heard of before so they must have come with it back in 2022 when e forced me to get it so i could keep track of blood oxygen in the wake of covid and such. so we knew it was me, not the batteries.

nik and i, as we do, started researching it all while i was lying there and while the ingredients do have the possibility of tachycardia but you’d pretty much need to pop all sixty tabs, not just two. i did read a one star review that said he found they worked on his leg pain (i’ll quickly add they didn’t seem to do shit for mine) but his concern was that it had strychnine in it. STRYCHNINE. as in rat poison. so, needless to say, that won’t be taken.

answering the questions this leaves behind, by lunch i felt a bit better, ate whataburger with the fam, and then went two work several hours later and still hit thirteen tattoo shops before heading home.

oh, and the banner for today’s bit is brought to you by the birthday girl for today, no naMEs mentioned.