26 Apr 09 09:45, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Yeah, but you're at least a foot taller than I am...gotta have that
 RW>> much pressure to get it 'up' there. I learned a new one the other
 RW>> day. The blood pressure in your legs (ankles) is supposed to be 180
 RW>> plus.

 RN> That's why sometimes when I get a headache severe enough or I feel
 RN> like I'm coming down with something, I take 3 aspirin instead of 2
 RN> because it has a long way to travel.  (-:

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

 RW>> Well, I did have it down to 116/65 with diet, but I was starving to
 RW>> death.  And I got sick of eating turkey.

 RN> My mother used to tell me my blood pressure should be 100 plus my
 RN> age. 140/90 seems a bit odd to me.  I'm neither 40 or 90.

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

 RW>> My sister is my sounding board. She's been a RN her whole life.

 RN> That helps.

 RW>> That was my reaction as well.

 RN> We probably won't live long enough to see it, but eventually strokes
 RN> and heart attacks will be a thing of the past.

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

                R\%/itt




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