I'm a liberal pagan living in West, Texas. Yes. That West, Texas.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

today...feck

woke up to no electricity. Which meant the house was muggy and stuffy and I had blood pounding in my head and hard to breathe..so I figured my blood pressure was up and doubled up on my meds and symptoms didn't go away..my blood sugar was up so I took the glimperide.. that I had eliminated and it was still up..I thought I'll wait it out..it's going to stop...21/2 hours later..no changes ..so I'm thinking..call 911? or drive up to our emergency station and see if they can check my blood pressure..so I drove myself to the station and damn I wish I could remember his name(cute cute blond kid) took me out to a unit and hooked me all up and blood pressure was up and after a bunch of very smart questions figured out it might be a asthma attack..he called in Tom Marek and he came in and offered up more intelligent questions and conversation.. and put me on the 12 hook up and my heart was great, blood pressure was going down(thanks to the doubling up of the blood pressure meds my blood pressure was down..now we're worrying I took too much and was going to bottom out..but it stayed same ...so hooked me up to nebulizer and that helped ..Tom Marek(he and the cute blond are my new hero's) said 3/4 of the work was done..up to me if I wanted to go to hospital..well I hate fecking hospitals..his concern was if the electricity was still out there was no way for me to hook up my nebulizer..and did I have a place to go to get electricity ? I'm thinking Barbara or any other friend in West...could have electricity and mine might even be back on..so I came home..my decision..which I like..making my own decisions..get home and have electricity ..so switched on a/c to get humidity out of air..and am now hooked up to my nebulizer..blood pounding in my head is gone and my chest is easing up..tada..but I am so grateful to Thom and the cute blond kid..who after I told him I hadn't smoked in 46 years, drank in 23 years and had sex since 1985 said that could be your problem...go have a cigarette, a beer and have sex..I'm thinking to myself? wanna volunteer..hahah...ok, don't tell him that..any how..they were wonderful and I learned a lot of information from Thom Marek...how pain can lead to high blood pressure and since that nerve was pinched for probably 20 years or better that my nerve to back of head could be messed up which could account for my high blood pressure..something we never considered..not connecting the two..so have lots of info to give to Dr Cujo when I go in Tuesday..but for now ..all is well in Jackiesue's world..

7 comments:

billy pilgrim said...

hang in there yellowdog, it takes more than this to keep a viking down.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Glad to read that all is well now! And had a good laugh at what that smartass young blonde kid said! And what you were thinking!

Unknown said...

Is the electiricty problem connected to the weird Texas weather?

I'm in Houston and we're fine, but it sounds as though everywhere else in the state is getting crazy amounts of rain. Oh, and I guess we did have a tornado last night, which is unheard of here...

I am glad the worst of your health scare might have passed, and I do hope the electricity issue was resolved, too!

Anonymous said...

I'm glad they straightened you out! I LOVE that you tell people you just met about not having sex, drinking and smoking for all these years. That cracks me up!
Stay well, missy!

jadedj said...

Oops, nothing here but white blanks. But apparently you are ok and I am glad for that :)

yellowdoggranny said...

yes, we've had thunderstorms, flash floods, tornado's..and we lost electricity for about 5 hours..lightning took took a couple of power lines.
hope it's easier to read now.

Intense Guy said...

As soon as you noticed that blonde kid was cute - I bet you were feelin' better!

:) Keep on getting better - you had a nasty scare there.