The Endicott Enquirer News from the Southern Tier

23Nov/080

When All You Want to Do is Work…

What do you do when all you want to do is work in the town you live in, serve your community, and do what is best for your family? That is the situation I am in right now, I have applied for a job in Hagerstown, interviewed and now am waiting on whether or not I will get the position. The worst part is that I don't know if I will be considered seriously because I am younger than what they likely expect and it just makes me very anxious.

I guess I just had to write this down since I have been thinking about it for the past few days and at this point I just want to know one way or another. I guess I will find out...

12Oct/080

Hypertension at 26

So it happened and I know a lot of it is my fault as much as anyone else, but I have been diagnosed with Hypertension at 26 years of age. If you look on WebMD they will tell you the age you need to start worrying about this is 45 years old.

So that means I have beaten the average by 19 years, lucky me.

So what is the cause? Well, for one I am overweight, I'm not going to lie. That is likely issue number one, but the I also imagine some of it has to do with the fact that high blood pressure runs in my family. My dad has it as do others so it doesn't surprise me that I do too. I guess I just wish it did not occur so early in me. I don't eat much salt, I don't drink, I try to stay away from a lot of the bad stuff but I still have it. Then again, I make up for these in having a really high stress job.

How do you deal with this? I'm now going to be on a maintenance dosage for the rest of my life and I'm 26...