Good Hospital Tale (so you know the ending, but it takes a while)

Tico, I'm popcorning myself so I get you, but are you into mock?

I can only do this in release.

my guess is he's keeping you from getting locked out by the flood police...

Aha.
Were my posts on this floods? I know how to wait.

I'm merely surmising.

I have no authority to voice for Tico.

if I did, he would sound kinda like speedy gonzalez...

Well, never mind all that. I was getting warmer and sort of sweaty at fifty minutes standing strapped in, in place. I'd mentioned it earlier (they want to listen to what you feel). Warmer.

I had been looking around the small room to keep up my own interest, including looking at the window in the door, but I got very hot. I very later on had trouble nailing the ceiling in place.

I found my right arm doing something for some reason I almost remember, way to my left.

They shut it down, I'd had a seizure.

This is not your usual test.

Yes, the dreaded tilt table. I despised that one back in 2007 when they did it to me. You lasted longer than I did though, I ran into trouble within the first half an hour. My stress test didn't go much better as when they got to imaging, I began coughing uncontrollably, although I wasn't supposed to move a muscle for the duration of the imaging.

Do these people who do these tests ever actually take them? If they did, maybe they'd better relate to the patients.

Anyway, sorry to see you having to go through all this, glad you've made it to here and are able to give us the rundown.

Osso, now I know what is meant by bated breath. I'm impressed by your ability to chronical this experience practically in real time. I know of no Buddhist prayers for this occasion so I'm making up my own.
I'm going to call Tico and arrange a lunch in your honor. Continue to be brave and give Diane a kiss for me. When will we get the diagnosis do you think?
Sleep well with all my love and concern.
JL

You had a seizure?

What kind of a seizure. What the hell is going on?

I've said it many times, but it bears repeating: Patience is NOT one of my virtues. Holy moly.

C'mon, kid. Give.

Well, apparently that "seizure", their word, to me a blackout, was clarifying. They put the tilt table right down - they explain all this before, while you don't quite understand - and I recovered. I felt better near immediately but lay there for something like twenty minutes or a half hour to be sure.

Then I saw the Man.

He was interesting. No chitchatter. Suffered no fools.
No more Lisinopril. He put me on a new blood pressure drug.
Later, when I'd read the directions and cautions that came with the little bottle, I called cardiology and tried to argue with him. No go.

He was right, it's working; very different from lisinopril.

The official diagnosis on my discharge paper was Vasodepressive Syncopy.

They sent me home. Brain and heart not the problem.

I couldn't write this all at once, what with my pseudo attention deficit disorder.
(grins).

Alls well that ends well.

Jo

Just back from Google. A circulation issue (I think).

No surgery for you. Good.

No heart problem. Good.

No brain problem. Good.

Definitely a "good hospital tale"--but too steenkin' long.

Glad the new med is working. Glad you had a good experience, relatively speaking.

No more "seizures." That's an order.

Please say hi to Diane for me. Glad she's around to help.

Attention deficit disorder my ass.

He wants to see me again in October.
That man is sure.

One more comment and then it's my bedtime -

A relative of my last roommate said, as they were leaving the hospital with the roommate, I can't take lisinopril either, it makes me dizzy.

I take Lisinopril. It keeps my BP under control and doesn't make me dizzy.

I haven't researched it recently - I'll hazard a guess that some are more vulnerable to it for some reason than others are. I'd been down to 2.5 (from the original 20) for a couple of years, the effects of it lasting for some days, and took one again when the bp went up, but never ever before. I'd been off it for at least one day when this **** happened.

I think I remember that Bob took 40, and took a pill before he broke his hip, or so he told me.

This may be too little too late, but beetroot juice is very good for lowering bp. It can make your wee pink and your poo a bit red though.

I used to take Lisinopril, but it gave me a chronic cough. Apparently that isn't unusual. So my doctor switched me to Losartan Potassium - taken alongside Atenolol, it seems to work well.

Glad you seem to be on the mend now - scary when you pass out, whatever the reason.

I need to learn to like beets.