When I arrived at the dialysis center this morning, I saw a few nurses and a tech run out of the building toward a parked minivan. I wasn’t sure what was happening, but they ran back into the building asking someone to call 911. Definitely not good. I didn’t hear anything else about the incident so no idea what happened. I guess a patient didn’t want to go to the ER and came to dialysis instead.
My blood pressure was pretty low this morning. I couldn’t remember if I took my blood pressure medication last night, so I took a reading and it said 195/110. Thinking that I forgot to take it, I took another one and within 30 minutes, I felt dizzy as my blood pressure dropped to about 100/60 lying down. I rested for about 15 minutes and drove to dialysis. I was fine sitting down but when I stood up, things got a bit dizzy again. I ended up having low blood pressure throughout the session. The tech even gave me oxygen but I don’t know how much it helped. I ended up sitting after the session for about 10 minutes until my blood pressure came up a bit.
Two more times… going to be so glad that dialysis will be over.
Life with chronic diseases 