Anxiety Attack

My hospital stay have to be extended another day bacause my blood pressure won't go down. The night before I was to be discharged, my blood pressue was at 160/100. So, I decided to get some rest. I slept around 1030. At 2AM, I was wide awake. Olive's still awake, so, I asked her to come talk to me, for I can feel myself starting to panic. I think, no, I know I'm having an anxiety attack.

We talked and I drank some chamomile tea. Olive asked me what I'm anxious about. I said I'm anxious about my blood pressure. Now, how do you fight that? There I was, supposed to get calm or rested enough so that my blood pressure will stabilize, and yet it's exactly the thing that I'm anxious about! How do I win this? *LOL* I'm in deep shit here!

I finally felt calm enough to sleep again. But what do you know? An hour and a half later, I was awake again, and I can't sleep no matter how hard I try. When the nurse came at 6 o'clock. My blood pressure have shot up to 170/120. They gave me something to get my BP down. After an hour, it's gone down to 150/100. Still high, so I had another sublingual dose of medication. During the day, it never went below 130/90.

Nevertheless, I asked to be discharged. As I can't get enough rest at the hospital. With friends and family visiting, and the nurses checking up on me every now and then, I'd rather go home. It's a good thing that my doctors agreed. They discharged me with medications to calm me down. And I'm counting my blessings.