[Magdalen] prayer request

[Jay Weigel]

Prayers and hugs, Ginga. I do the same damn thing, so I know whereof you
speak.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:58 AM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prayers, love, support, hugs,
>
> May you be able to receive the gusts of care and self-care you are given.
>
> From Helena, MT - Cady
>
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 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
> >
>