All is fine, but just feel like venting. =P

 

So late last night, Dad calls me and tells me I need to take him to the Emergency Room. First thing I ask is if he is ok. He replies he is complaining of high blood pressure. I come over, and we start driving.

 

Come to find out.... early in the day, he felt a slight headache (or imagined it), went to CVS, and used the blood pressure checker machine. It came in slightly elevated. He freaked out. Went to see his doctor, doctor checked it twice, told him it is normal for him, and cleared him. Dad goes home, buys a blood pressure monitor, works himself up over the idea of it, and voila, no surprise, it reads high, like 170 over 80 or so. Calls his friend (another hypochondriac) and his friend tells him it is too high, and dad's doctor is stupid, and he should go to the ER.

 

My dad is now freaked out, over relatively nothing, and that is how we went to the ER. Obviously, you can't just go to the ER for 30 mins, as they keep you there. Hours later, after monitoring his blood pressure for hours, and he tells them... "He does not feel now, or felt the entire day any pain, pressure, difficulty breathing, etc." they released him. Dude, WTF.

 

The ER is not a 24/7 doctor's office without an appointment. Love my dad and all, but like douchebag!

 

Every doctor I went to with him, all tell him he freaks out about everything for no reason.

Be easy on him. As time goes on, we tend to be more conscious of our ailments, etc. While that blood-pressure is not life-threatening for the day or week, that is high blood pressure and he should get treated (medicine) for it. As all fathers can be and will be a pain in a** from time-to-time, appreciate him while you have him. I was 19 when I lost my father and think about him every day. That was over 30 years ago.

Thanks, and I totally get it. I like spending time with him, and I am sure to some degree, this is just an outcry to spend time with him, but would of rather go to dinner with him. =)

Yea, I understand. I know where I'm at here, you can't go to the ER and be out within 12-18 hours. It really sucks.

Yea, I understand. I know where I'm at here, you can't go to the ER and be out within 12-18 hours. It really sucks.

 

Well, you can, but it usually involves a visit to the guy in the basement on a steel table.

Well, you can, but it usually involves a visit to the guy in the basement on a steel table.

 

it took me a second to figure that one out Dan. =P

Having paid more visits to the ER this year than an EMT, I think I'm qualified to say that Hospitals suck - they're full of sick people and (mostly) arrogant doctors. My wife knows the nurses so well now that the last time she called one by name and that woman pulled some strings or something and had us bing bang boom in and in a bed and seen in a matter of minutes. No matter what they tell you, nurses run the hospitals. Piss off the nurses and you are as good as dead. Get on the nurses good side and you're going to have a pleasant stay.

 

In any case, leaving a hospital, upright, in any amount of time, fully beats the alternative.

Without going into web md nonsense having hypertension can be a significant symptom of other serious things. Good thing he got checked out and it was nothing.