Last night we had to rush off to the emergency room at the hospital because my husband's blood pressure shot sky high.
I have a BP cuff here at home and took his blood pressure and it was 165/107 which is entirely too high. The perfect range is 120/80.
When we got to ER he had his BP taken again and it was 160/98. While waiting to be taken into a room he was sitting in the lobby and he started to get rather pale and clammy.
I asked him how he was feeling and he said that he was feeling as if he was going to pass out.
He was rushed right in and was stripped of coat and his shirt. His shirt was soaked with sweat.
They hooked him up to a EKG right away and slipped a BP cuff on him and inserted an IV into him right away.
To make a long story short, he had taken his blood pressure medication just an hour before. This medication which is to hold his blood pressure down did the opposite of what it is supposed to do.
He eventually was released when his BP was normal for sometime. We got home at 11:30 PM last night after all that and went straight to bed.
This morning I am bushed as I watch the inauguration of President Obama.
