(Day 8) On Listening, Love and Lobsters...
Storm Over Vessy's Friday evening brought some scary news to our home. Mom had been taken to the hospital with an extremely elevated blood pressure. Initial diagnosis was a mini-stroke and they sent her home. Within a few hours of returning home her conditions deteriorated and she needed to go back to the hospital. Dad and my brother tried to call an ambulance but she would have nothing of it. Dad drover her to the hospital and there, after a CAT scan it was determined that she did not have a stroke but instead was suffering from very high blood pressure. She was kept overnight for observation and released on Saturday morning with medication to control her blood pressure. I went over to the Island on Sunday after Church and my brother Brian was still upset at Mom's stubbornness - she wouldn't listen to him and Dad urging her to go by ambulance - funny how the mother who used to urge us to listen to her "out of love" is hard of hearing when it com...