Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Alan.Hess From: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Alan Hess) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Spasms Message-ID: <18783@bunker.isc-br.com> Date: 15 Apr 91 15:51:32 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:261/1000 - Nerve Center, Pikesville MD Lines: 30 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 14937 [This is from the Spinal Injury Conference] In a message of Frank Whitney (1:261/1000@fidonet) writes to Alan Hess: FW> What always ticks me off is when my blood pressure is higher then FW> normal for myself but within tolerable limits for other people. FW> Of FW> course when they are taking my pressure the headache has almost FW> gone Naturally. Mine has hit 220/140 while my bladder was releasing when I had a whopping infection. I thought my head would split! Every time it started, I'd call someone over to squeeze my temples until it stopped. It worked, sort of. However, since it is a transient phenonmenon, I really can't take blood pressure medication, since I'm normally low-normal. FW> ICU so I don't know if he made it or not. All I can say is when FW> I had FW> to have a surgical procedure done there I'm happy that I stayed FW> on the FW> surgical ward. You were expecting proper care from the medical profession? :-) *adh* -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Alan.Hess Internet: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org