I went to work Monday as usual, 12:00 came along and I sat down to lunch, I made my vegetable salad (no lettuce) as I do everyday.
I heated up the grilled chicken breast from the night before, I took one bite of the salad and started to feel dizzy my heart stuttered and I was short of breath????
Long story short I had a friend drive me to the emergency room where they informed me that my blood pressure was 220 over 130 and they rushed to a room. Over the next two hours the could not get my pressure to go down much, and admitted me to the cardiac ward!
They got my pressure under control, and did everything they could to find out why it had jumped so high, after many many tests I still do not have an answer. I will be following up with my primary doctor on Friday who I know will find a good cardio Dr. for me.
Now for my point, I am 6 foot tall 175 pounds, I eat an extremely healthy diet and I am very active out doors and at work. I do on occasion brink beer and sometimes a cigarette or two. I have learned a lot these last couple of days about blood pressure, I have always been very mildly hypertensive but nothing like Monday, which I was told that had I not gotten their when I did I could have gone into cardiac arrest or a stroke.
I encourage everyone no matter how healthy you think you are to get yourselves checked on those (little) things that may be in the back of your mind, they don't go away! All I could think about was My precious daughter and lovely wife, well and that Kevin would end up getting that Pucallpa Peruvian male from me LOL...
Joel Thomas
