Re: What happened in the ER?

In article <1134179731.959184.220200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"just Ed" <just_ed53spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> REP wrote:
> > In article <1134111528.964677.232990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "just Ed" <just_ed53spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I didn't see it, but my wife was shown that the monitor
> > > had recorded a BP of 90/25 !?! during the episode.
> > >
> > > I had not felt unusually bad considering the circumstance.
> > > Was this a valid reading?
> > > a reaction to morphine? -how unusual is that?
> > > how close did I get to dying?
> >
> > This is just a guess from a naturally hypOtensive person (my normal BP
> > is around 90/40) is that you might have been in shock, and that you
> > weren't very close to death. I'm sure one of the people who know what
> > they're talking about will be along soon to correct my guess.
> >
> > --
> > "Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner."
>
> tnx, REP.
> I really had no feel for how low that BP was.

Some of my normal BP readings could be considered 'shocky' in someone
else, particularly someone who had been in an accident (or so my doctor
keeps saying, when he isn't cracking jokes about me being legally dead
in some states) and on the very rare occasions I've been seen in Urgent
Care or the ER, I've had to explain that that's my normal range and
nothing to be concerned about.

As I predicted, someone who knows what he's talking about did show up
and gave a much better answer than I did. At least I got that part 100%
right!

--
"Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner."
- Helen Keller, on learning of the death of her grandfather
.

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