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Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n

Kamal Kaur<\/p>\n

24 June 2011<\/p>\n

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When I’m stressed out about something, most times I deal with it and move on. However since Sunday there is one thing that I can’t just seem to shake off. It may not have seemed like a big deal to those who asked, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it and thus ended up getting my blood pressure high.<\/p>\n

I’m not on regular medication for this ailment, but have in the recent past suffered bouts of my blood pressure building up. Twice now it has left me feeling like I was run over by a big red double decker bus. When it happens, I get all dizzy and I can hear a tinny sound that just doesn’t go away. Worse still, I get nauseous and just want to lie down and not talk to anyone.<\/p>\n

By Monday evening I was feeling worse, despite hoping that some rest at home would sort me out. Once I put the kids to bed, I did tell them I’d quickly go to the doctor to get checked. I called a cab because I was in no state to drive and calling an ambulance that is part of the medical cover I have would have totally freaked out the kids.<\/p>\n

The twenty-minute journey from my home to the hospital took half the time because the kamikaze driver thought I was dying of a heart attack or something. He was kind enough to take me through to the A & E and make sure I was attended to before he left me. He even offered to wait for me but I politely declined. I didn’t want to have to sell my kidney at the hospital to fund my drive back home. I’m saving to sell it to buy myself the new iPad2.<\/p>\n

As I patiently waited for the gentleman at the counter to find my file, I found myself particularly intrigued by the large number of patients at the hospital.Some looked really ill, others looked tired, and a little girl in a pink frock kept coming up to me to stare at me with her nose leaking stuff that made me want to vomit. I’m a Mum. Such things shouldn’t affect me but I was just so out of it.<\/p>\n

The low buzz of voices sounded magnified to my already irritated ears and it took all my energy not to stand up and scream whilst telling everyone to shut up. I tried to distract myself by going through my phone but that just got me more worked up. I tried to shut my eyes and put my head back and relax but that made me think of what was stressing me out. Then I felt a lone tear snake its way down my face as I sat there feeling sorry for myself.<\/p>\n

I wondered who to call, and sadly couldn’t think of anyone. It’s not that I lack people who I can depend on in my time of need. It’s just that in my state of mind, I couldn’t think of who to call to come and help me or be with me. Most my friends would be in the middle of dinner, or with their kids preparing them for bed, or something or the other. I don’t know. All I know is I didn’t want to call anyone and bother them.<\/p>\n

Eventually my name was called out and I walked to the all too familiar emergency treatment room where I have watched my Mum in the past few months be revived, treated and almost brought back from the dead in front of my own eyes.<\/p>\n

As the nurse checked my vitals, I watched his face to see how he reacts as the monitor registers a high systolic and diastolic reading but he’s trained to be expressionless, I guess.<\/p>\n

As I waited for the doctor to see me, I looked around at the digital blood pressure monitor and realised the nurse had forgotten the thermometer stuck in my armpit.<\/p>\n

Thoughts to pull it out vanished soon as my doctor walked in. After checking me through, he wrote me a five day prescription and a strict warning to rest and try not get stressed.<\/p>\n

As I stood outside the hospital waiting for my cab, not for the first time in my life, I felt truly alone and wished I had someone by my side to tell me it’s going to be ok. Eventually everything does work out but just to hear those magical words from someone else when you really need to hear them always work wonders on one, don’t they…? I’m much better now, thanks.<\/p>\n

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