silent killer
i thought it was my sinuses as usual...horizontal for days, pain in my head. i had less energy than a dead dust mite. finally i dragged myself to the doctor. i was thinking i'd ask about having my head vacuumed out. when his assistant took my blood pressure i asked, as i always do, what it was. "140 over 102," she said.

"is that high?"

"it's not low."

when my doctor took it he got a reading of 136 over 106. he told me i'll probably be on the meds for the rest of my life.

i am 48 years old. my father died of a heart attack when he was 49. my mother died of cancer that galloped through her body after she suffered a catastrophic stroke at 54 [she was dead 5 months after the CVA]. my daughter died at 21 of massive head injuries suffered when she was run down by a pissed off 53-year-old drunken woman .

but i still want to stick around to hold my 11-year-old son's babies before i join her. so this was not good news.
- posted by barbara @ 11/03/2003 02:23:00 AM