My husband's health is improving!

[lmrose]

I have written before I am worried about my husband. He had virus pneumonia when he was a year old and a temperature of 106F. He almost died at the time. He was left with a damaged kidney, an enlarged aorta, high blood pressure and damage to his eyes.
Over his life time he has had many scares when his blood pressure esculated to dangerous heights despite being on medication. Then two years ago something changed and his blood pressure would drop very low and his heart would race to keep his blood circulating. He would often pass out. His medication was changed but these episodes continued. The heart specialist couldn't find a reason for this change.

Bill decide on his own to cut his medication in half. His body was telling him he was taking too much by the way he felt. This helped and he started only having spells when he exerted himself working hard. The doctor explained the medicine was designed to drive his blood pressure down . Whenever he did physical work his blood pressure would increase which is normal. But the medicine reacted by lowering it too fast.

A week ago Bill decided to take is pill at night instead of in the morning. He had tried eliminating it altogether but then his blood pressure would esculate quickly. Switching to taking the pill at bed time is having good results so far! The pill keeps his BP at a normal level. Then during the day when he works hard and blood pressure rises normally the pill is not reacting like it previously was. Instead of the BP dropping and him fainting he feels normal now and his BP falls back to a normal reading.

He has had a busy week of hauling seaweed with the horse from the ocean beach. They made six trips and hauled more than a ton home. That is a lot of pitching it on the cart and pitching it off again at home. So far other than normal tiredness at night Bill is feeling normal If he gets up at night to the bathroom he feels a little light headed but that soon passes.

We are hopeful this adjustment from taking the pill in the morning to taking it at night has cured the problem of the spells he previously had. My husband always says a person needs to listen to their body.We need doctors but they don't know everything. The only person who really knows how they feel is the person them-self. There have been some very scary times watching him pass out and his eyes roll back. I am just so thankful he is doing better now.

[Rosepath]

What a great thing for both of you! And a good reminder to "listen" to our bodies. He sounds like a very hard worker, and a person who wants to work finds it frustrating to have spells when they can't. I'm glad things are going better.
I would love to see a cart and horse seaweed-hauling photo, we of the flat Midwest with no ocean tend to haul a different kind of fertilizer

[Bret]

Good work team. A fun Friday Report.

I like the picture in my head of him working with the horse, loading seaweed on the beach. I can hear the ocean lapping and the foam hissing.

I am squinting into the sun in my picture.

[Tricky Grama]

So glad. Prayers of thanks.

[ceresone]

Glad to hear He's imprpoved--and so envious of your seaweed--wish I had a pile on my raised beds (Garden)

[HOTW]

Good for him we do have to learn ohr bodies and listen to them too bad drs dont feel a person can 'know' this!

[where I want to]

I agree that medication, while saving life, can make it unbearable. Good for both of you in finding good solutions.

[modineg44]

I'm so glad your husband is improving. My 87 year old friend was taking quite a few meds from different doctors. None of the doctors seem to care what the others were prescribing. And my friend was feeling just awful all the time. On her own she stopped all the meds except an aspirin a day. She feels 1000% better. She's not planning to go back to any of those doctors.

[lmrose]

Thanks everyone for the well wishes ! Bill does get frustrated when he can't work hard. Farming is seasonal and everything must be done on time. The window of opportunity to get rockweed off the beach is just a few weeks usually the end of February and in March. By April it is usually gone. The high tides bring it in and deposit it on the rocky shore. The out going tides also carry it away. It seems by April things change and not as much is washed ashore. Other than the problems I had mentioned previously my husband is as physically fit as he was in his twenties- all 132 lbs of him!

I have pictures on my computer but don't know how to post them. I don't know how to get them from where they are filed to this sight?On Face Book I posted a picture because Face Book had a place to click on and then a window opened and I was able to choose a picture to post. I am kind of technically challenged and only have very basic computer knowledge. My grandson was a big help but he grew up and moved 4,000 miles away to take a job as a correctional officer at a prison! I sure miss him. Like all young people he is a computer whiz!

[Poultryguy]

May he fully recover.