28 Apr 09 09:07, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Hmmmm. My dad used to just lie down after taking two aspirin...

 RN> That would probably work, but sometimes I can't do that.

He would get these terrible headaches that would incapacitate him. I
suffered with them while in my 20s, but they went away later. I remember
the worst one I had...I could feel it coming and began to head for home. I
didn't get very far when it hit, full force. It hurt so bad that my vision
was blacked out and I was blinded by the pain. I had to pull my car over
to the curb and park for a while. When it subsided, I headed for home
again. Made it and fell into bed after taking three aspirin. It was gone
when I woke up the next day. After that I started to wear sunglasses when
I went outside  in daylight.

 RW>> I think she got it wrong. Twice your age/2... 60yo = 120/60 or 70yo
 RW>> = 140/70, but I've seen elderly oriental people at the BP machine
 RW>> with 80/40bp...rice and fish diet...

 RN> That was a long time ago and scientific calculations of that era have
 RN> been swept away by new data.  The info I saw (I thought I was going
 RN> to see a chart for all age and height groups) had the simple
 RN> explanation of calculating it by taking 220 and subtracting my age,
 RN> which would be near to 140.  The problem I encountered was that most
 RN> of the sites didn't take into account the height of the individual
 RN> and those that did produced an unreadable chart, at least to me.

Using that method, mine should be 152...it was 118/66 yesterday.

 RW>> Both sides of my family have had a history of one thing or another.
 RW>> My brother got the strokes from the Witts and my sister got the
 RW>> diabetes from my mother's family...I'm somewhere inbetween with
 RW>> different problems.

 RN> My maternal grandmother had a stroke or two before she died.  No
 RN> strokes on my father's side of the family and my late brother didn't
 RN> die from one and my sister in FL has yet to have one, so I suppose
 RN> that genetic wasn't passed on to us.  We have bunions, though.

Fortunately, all of us got my maternal grandmother's genes, no balding.
Grandfathers were bald, on both sides of the family. My dad, sister and I
got the light colored hair while my brother got the black hair from the
maternal grandma...

                R\%/itt




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