The last few days Shawn's blood pressure spikes have been lasting longer; last night after over an hour of bp above 180, he went to the emergency room. He kept putting it off; saying "by the time I get there it will be back down again." Arie bargined with him - said he could take his blood pressure in the car when they got there; if it was down they'd just go back home. (Thanks, Arie, you're one smart girlfriend.) So of course they got there and it was still high; in the car it was 180something, but in the ER it was actually 194/116, pulse 155. Needless to say they didn't tell him to just go back home.
It took three applications of nitroglycerine before it started coming down. EKG looked fine and his enzymes are ok but they wanted him to stay overnight and have an echocardiogram in the morning.
He was told that would happen "first thing" this morning, and that he might be released by noon if everything looked ok. It's now noon in Indiana, and they haven't taken him to the lab yet. If they want to keep him longer then we're planning to drive down there today although not quite sure where we'll stay...
As soon as we know more I'll post it here.
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