Originally Posted by
Frank S
Sorry not a fun day First off she is fine everything is as should be.
The wife went out early this morning to feed the animals and let the chickens out to roam As she approached the ramp to back door reaching for the railing both arms suddenly went numb and her head felt like it was going to explode, she said her chest felt like it was on fire but no pain. 12 minutes later i had driven the 14 miles to the ER ( Yes my little pickup will wrap the needle on the speedometer when it needs to. I had phoned the Sheriff's office to ask them to inform the DPS who I knew would be parked out on the highway and inform him that I would be shattering his radar. I don't know how fast I was going but when we passed the only cross road intersection between our house and town he was sitting cross ways blocking the intersecting road when we blew past. then he tried to catch up with us, and did finally manage to pass me about 4 miles later leading us on into hospital which fortunately is on the edge of our small town.
Once in the ER they did their thing her episode had passed on the way there but her blood pressure was still somewhere in the 250 over something ranges
Test after test plus more tests and a couple injections later she was wheeled into a room for observation 5 hours later it was determined she had had an adverse reaction to a new medicine the Dr had prescribed last week to control her BP They managed to get her BP down to 117/54 then an hour later it was 124/62 then after another hour and 3 more checks it had stabilized at 157/72 for the last 3 checks they decided to release her Loaned me an electronic pressure arm band but we stopped and bought one anyway since the one they loaned us we will have to return eventually Our is a small community hospital and much of that type equipment is donated in the first place. They can ill afford to just hand them out and not get them back someday.
Anyway she has to go back for a follow up Friday but if she experiences another spike or episode I'm to call the ambulance LOL fat chance we can be there long before the ambulance could even arrive at our house.
I will finish my thoughts on the generations soon