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To: Toespi

A family member of about 50 years died like that. His doctor had given him 2 new meds for his mild blood pressure issue. A diuretic that he complained made him pee too often, and a new bp Med that he said made him dizzy when he got up. One night he got up to pee and his wife heard him hit the floor really hard. Then silence. He had passed out. She called 911. At the hospital he appeared fine and was wondering how to get Uber to get them home. When one of the tests came back bad and they needed to do an mri right away. Only then did his speech start slurring and he no longer was able to act normally. He had a tremendous brain bleed that they said was inoperable. Yet over the next 3 days they operated on him 3 times. He didn’t make it. He had been taking an aspirin a day and they docs said that made the brain bleed hard to stop. He never got to see his kids graduate and marry etc.

Takeaway: if there is more chance you could injure your head in a fall than die of clogged arteries, do not take aspirin regularly.


73 posted on 02/17/2022 1:14:48 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Fifty? That is terrible. Was he conscious during the next three days or did he go into a coma?


76 posted on 02/17/2022 4:54:47 AM PST by Toespi ( )
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