Falling Apart

Having just come from the doctor’s office, where I went for a routine yearly checkup, I was shocked to be told that my blood pressure is high, 150/120. For the last 60 years, my blood pressure has been perfect - 120/80. No matter what I ate or how I lived, it never fluctuated.  But today, it decided to shoot through the roof. My doctor was very concerned and told me to purchase a digital blood pressure meter and monitor my blood pressure 3 times a day over the course of the next week and report back.  Having never been overly concerned about blood pressure, I was clueless as to how blood pressure affected my healthy. So, as soon as I got home, I decided to do some investigation on the Internet.  Read more »