This blog was described as not only a publicity site for my book, for awareness of Post-Traumatic Syringomyelia, but also as my walk through both of these things.
With that in mind as I sit here at 3:30AM not able to sleep I will share why I am not sleeping.
At 10:30PM last night my blood pressure dropped to an all-time low to date --- BP:73/37 Pulse: 69. As much as I did not want to fall asleep at these levels so I could continue to monitor myself - my body succumbed to sleep just after midnight. It is very hard, nearly impossible to keep yourself awake with such a low BP in conjunction with my pulse not increasing enough in an attempt to compensate for lack of blood flow.
I awoke at 2:30 AM, I suppose because my pulse increased during my short period of sleep. Up to 89. Not super high for some, but for me it is nearly 30 beats per minute above my norm. My pulse is religiously 60 - has been for years. On that thought, my BP has been until recently, religiously 120/60-70 for all of my adult life. Numbers that are considered "perfect".
Lately my pulse reaches up into the 120's - doing nothing truly physical to any stretch of the imagination.
On the topic of my BP - it can sometimes spike up to 140/80 in no time from numbers such as 80/44. A very big shock to my system, and in companion with a pulse increase to the number I listed above. This is the worst of circumstances for a few reasons - which I will not bore or burden you with at this point. Save to share the simplest of complications from when this occurs - I shake to near convulsions and become intensely nauseous.
So there you have a very recent update. I can happily say that at the moment I awoke to present time, I am at 80/45 with a now decreasing pulse to 77.
God bless each of you in this day ahead.
With love,
Ronda
