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This post is my 1,500th. It is posted in the A frame sub forum as that is where I have spent the most time plus I can find it easier here. This post contains nothing about camping,,,, if you want move along. Also the subject matter is not pretty if you are sensitive.
A few months ago I had my 4th stroke and this is a brief summary of what I wish I knew a while back. I don't need any "I'm so sorry'es." This is life.
At 140 over 90. the Dr. is supposed to give you the " let's talk about high blood pressure medicine speech. Mine didn't 6 months before it happened but did write it down in the notes.
DW comes from a high pressure background. DW used to go to the fire dept and get her's measured. They've even started a blood pressure day. We now have a monitor at home. This thing is allegedly the best Amazon has and was about 70.00. They make some in the 20.00s. The measurement is fairly accurate. I check mine every morning while the stevia dissolves but I've had 3 stokes and one TIA. I'm from a low BP family.
Timelines: I knew there was something askew 6 months before #4 hit. From arguing over I don't want to go to the ER to feinting on the ER floor took about 30 minutes. Don't argue with DW. Go, your mentally impaired at the time. The morning of , about 4 hours before, I went on a supply run and ran off the road three times in 5 miles. I had difficulty speaking for a couple hours about a week before it hit
Pick your hospital Now!!. Do a trial run on it NOW and observe. It would have saved me 5 to 10 minutes that may have turned this stroke into a TIA. My hospital is run by incredibly stupid beauracrats Does it have a one lane driveway running up to the 2nd floor entrance of a 100 bed emergency room? Will guards yell for DW to dump me out faster and move on because there was a line behind me. They didn't notice the vomit dripping down the right side of her car? Were the guards/maintenance parked in the emergency parking spaces? Its 30 to 40 ' from the car to the ER door. Do they have a attendant to help get you to the door.?????
I was born in the Deep South. That means I have had a knife on me since age 5.. That means I get to wait in line at security when they find it. With a beard full of vomit and what was described as a death look, finally I head to the ER door. Some Dr or someone came running to the door. It appears the look on my face was pretty bad. Last I heard was " do you need a Dr?. "Yes", I feinted. So next time, I have a trick, fake feinting upon arrival
You don't get to pick the time of your stroke. Consider DW's safety. Where is the parking deck that the car is going to? How is she going to feel about walking to the car alone at 2 AM the next morning. Fortunately for me , my male ER nurse escorted her this time and they are moving the stroke ward to a different part of town.
So how are these two strokes number 3 and 4. See 2 years ago I had a stroke (#3 which was a TIA) and they gave me a MRI. It found 1&2's damage left behind. One of them had been an ass ripper. Fortunately I slept thru both probably years ago and never knew of their existence till #3's MRI.
Go to the family reunion. Find out about your genetics, heredity, and who died of what.
This is the camping part. I have a few sectors corrupted in the hard drvie platters. The I have a closeby campground. I had every mile and yard memorized on how to get there except a 5 mile strech. Had the campground memorized. Went for two weeks trying to remember.
In the deep South we have tornados<GG> They will predict a 8 hour window and we will sit up in the bed and watch the radar and listen to the weatherman yammer. This pre-empts everything. This is nonstop and can go on for hours and hours. There was a tornado 3 months ago they zero in on it and there it was. I have landmark about 60 miles from my house and usually if the tornado Is going to get close close to my house k. My landmark was the campgound I was trying to remember. Now I remember.
There are several campgrounds I can remember in detail except the name and how to get there.
I'm glad I had the stroke. May be getting sowed up next week. They went on a wild goose chase trying to find out what caused the stroke. Ultrasound isnt very accurate so they also did a cat.too. Appears there is an aortic aneurysm that is close to popping size that needs sowing up.
Sorry for the spelling, sentence structure, etc. got a lot rewiring to do the next year.
Thanks to the P.A. who sat by me til 2 A.M. 3 or so months ago trying to get my pressure under control and stabilized. Her name is lost to some record.
A few months ago I had my 4th stroke and this is a brief summary of what I wish I knew a while back. I don't need any "I'm so sorry'es." This is life.
At 140 over 90. the Dr. is supposed to give you the " let's talk about high blood pressure medicine speech. Mine didn't 6 months before it happened but did write it down in the notes.
DW comes from a high pressure background. DW used to go to the fire dept and get her's measured. They've even started a blood pressure day. We now have a monitor at home. This thing is allegedly the best Amazon has and was about 70.00. They make some in the 20.00s. The measurement is fairly accurate. I check mine every morning while the stevia dissolves but I've had 3 stokes and one TIA. I'm from a low BP family.
Timelines: I knew there was something askew 6 months before #4 hit. From arguing over I don't want to go to the ER to feinting on the ER floor took about 30 minutes. Don't argue with DW. Go, your mentally impaired at the time. The morning of , about 4 hours before, I went on a supply run and ran off the road three times in 5 miles. I had difficulty speaking for a couple hours about a week before it hit
Pick your hospital Now!!. Do a trial run on it NOW and observe. It would have saved me 5 to 10 minutes that may have turned this stroke into a TIA. My hospital is run by incredibly stupid beauracrats Does it have a one lane driveway running up to the 2nd floor entrance of a 100 bed emergency room? Will guards yell for DW to dump me out faster and move on because there was a line behind me. They didn't notice the vomit dripping down the right side of her car? Were the guards/maintenance parked in the emergency parking spaces? Its 30 to 40 ' from the car to the ER door. Do they have a attendant to help get you to the door.?????
I was born in the Deep South. That means I have had a knife on me since age 5.. That means I get to wait in line at security when they find it. With a beard full of vomit and what was described as a death look, finally I head to the ER door. Some Dr or someone came running to the door. It appears the look on my face was pretty bad. Last I heard was " do you need a Dr?. "Yes", I feinted. So next time, I have a trick, fake feinting upon arrival
You don't get to pick the time of your stroke. Consider DW's safety. Where is the parking deck that the car is going to? How is she going to feel about walking to the car alone at 2 AM the next morning. Fortunately for me , my male ER nurse escorted her this time and they are moving the stroke ward to a different part of town.
So how are these two strokes number 3 and 4. See 2 years ago I had a stroke (#3 which was a TIA) and they gave me a MRI. It found 1&2's damage left behind. One of them had been an ass ripper. Fortunately I slept thru both probably years ago and never knew of their existence till #3's MRI.
Go to the family reunion. Find out about your genetics, heredity, and who died of what.
This is the camping part. I have a few sectors corrupted in the hard drvie platters. The I have a closeby campground. I had every mile and yard memorized on how to get there except a 5 mile strech. Had the campground memorized. Went for two weeks trying to remember.
In the deep South we have tornados<GG> They will predict a 8 hour window and we will sit up in the bed and watch the radar and listen to the weatherman yammer. This pre-empts everything. This is nonstop and can go on for hours and hours. There was a tornado 3 months ago they zero in on it and there it was. I have landmark about 60 miles from my house and usually if the tornado Is going to get close close to my house k. My landmark was the campgound I was trying to remember. Now I remember.
There are several campgrounds I can remember in detail except the name and how to get there.
I'm glad I had the stroke. May be getting sowed up next week. They went on a wild goose chase trying to find out what caused the stroke. Ultrasound isnt very accurate so they also did a cat.too. Appears there is an aortic aneurysm that is close to popping size that needs sowing up.
Sorry for the spelling, sentence structure, etc. got a lot rewiring to do the next year.
Thanks to the P.A. who sat by me til 2 A.M. 3 or so months ago trying to get my pressure under control and stabilized. Her name is lost to some record.
