[Magdalen] prayer request

[Grace Cangialosi]

This all sounds very scary, Ginga! Are you being monitored in the hospital? And what is WNL?
Prayers rising from here...

Grace

> On Aug 1, 2018, at 8:22 PM, Rick Mashburn <ricklmashburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Prayers for you and your family.  Thanks for keeping us posted!
> 
> Much love,
> 
> Rick, Alex and Malcolm
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 7:11 PM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Friends, I continue to hang is.  My bp has been WNL all day!  I met with my
>> internist who gave me a new protocol for rescue at home -- actually going
>> back to the awful catapres medication every hour until bp is below
>> 170/100.  I am worn out and ready for this to go away.  And, perhaps it is
>> with today's readings.
>> 
>> Our son is still in ICU.  They were going to start dialysis today but his
>> numbers crept into t right direction....slow, slow, but thank God.
>> 
>> I feel like we're both on a good road now.
>> 
>> Thank you for your prayers.
>> Ginga
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:28 AM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Friends, I am in need of your prayers.  Some of you know I have a long
>>> history (since age 20) of labile and resistant to treatment hypertension.
>>> I also have WPW (benign) and mitral valve prolapse.  Plus, some calcified
>>> plaque build up in at least one coronary artery.  I have been quite
>>> symptomatic with blood pressure elevations all summer and irregular
>>> rhythm.  My internist has adjusted my medications which did not help more
>>> than a few days and one took me too low.  I saw my cardiologist last
>> week -
>>> I am now wearing a heart monitor and will have nuclear studies and echo
>>> cardiogram next week.  Yesterday, I awoke at about 4 AM feeling awful.
>> My
>>> BP registered at 194/120.  I was able to get it down to 141/77 with
>>> nitroglycerin.  My heart rate was very irregular.  I spoke with the
>>> cardiologist yesterday afternoon.  He told me what to take and I felt
>> much
>>> better very quickly.
>>> 
>>> So, here's my confession.  I've dealt with episodes like this since I was
>>> 20.  My head goes to denial that anything is very wrong....I do not want
>> to
>>> overreact.  I do not trust my monitor to be accurate in these times, so I
>>> try to ignore the symptoms as much as possible.  Before I would call my
>>> cardiologist yesterday, when my BP elevated again, I went to my pharmacy
>>> instead to check if my monitor was working correctly.  Well, yes.  My
>>> wonderful pharmacist took my pressure 5 times with two different
>> machines,
>>> one a manual.  207/105 was the average.
>>> 
>>> So, please pray that I can allow myself to take care of me by not denying
>>> or ignoring or minimizing my symptoms.  I will check in this morning with
>>> the cardiologist and I have asked John to insist that I go to ER if
>>> necessary.  End of confession, except I do find it much easier to take
>> care
>>> of others than me.  God, help me.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your prayers and gentle discipline.  As Sister Elias used
>> to
>>> say, "I love you all."
>>> Ginga
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>