The Puddles

Ben is enjoying lunch in the new cafeteria in the new wing at TCH.  Ever since it opened, Ben and I look forward to eating something new there each time we visit for an appointment!  Today’s visit was with the hypertensive clinic.  The nurse took his vitals when we first walked in and Ben’s blood pressure was 86/39.  That’s not good.  I asked the nurse to take it again because he has never gone that low.  She did and the second time his blood pressure was 94/42.  A little better, but these numbers meant Ben had to stay longer while the doctor listen to each limb and rechecked his blood pressures multiple times.  When the doctor took his pressures the numbers were in the normal range again.  The doctor increased his meds last month and she was concerned that his pressures were too low now.  No worries.  There was a fault with the equipment or something.

So his numbers are looking so good  (when you add all of the daily numbers that we report to her each week) that she is going to talk to the cardiologist to see about weaning Ben off of one of his heart meds.  Hopefully Ben’s cardiologist will say yes and that will be one less medicine for Ben to consume each morning.  It was a good visit with his doctor and Ben did great with his blood draw so we got to head home earlier than we expected.   It was a good day.