Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Day 120 of Gratefulness: My Dad’s Health


am truly grateful today for my Dad’s health.  A week ago my father was feeling symptoms of a heart attack and took himself to the hospital near him.  They reported that he had a mild heart attack.  Though my instinct told me he was okay and was rather bothersome that he was there.  He eventually moved to Boston where his doctor was and they went in to see what the issue was.  They went in and found that the blood was flowing great and they felt they did not have to due open-heart surgery.  That was good news #1 for me but not for my dad.  You see he wanted the symptoms he was feeling to go away and he depended on them to fix it.  I was pressing him to change his diet and lifestyle to fix it himself. 

I believe if you created the problem you should fix the problem.  But I also understand the fears and worries he was going through and sometimes you need the doctor to intervene.  So the doctors were struggling to figure out what was wrong with him.  Well my father started to feel the symptoms again as the doctor was in the room chatting with him.  They quickly took his vitals to begin the processes of figuring out what was causing him to feel this way.  Low and behold he has significant low blood pressure.  This is not normal for a man taking blood pressure medication for high blood pressure.  They have lowered his medication and hope that gets rid of the symptoms.  They discharged him but he is determined now to charge his diet and exercise more and several of us are going to support him through this new life he is creating for himself.

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