La Vida Skeeter

This week’s comic is me making light of a very scary situation I’ve had to deal with lately.  About a month ago, I started getting these really bad headaches.  Then, a couple weeks ago, I started having vision problems with the headaches.  I finally got in to see my doctor this week & discovered with a blood pressure test, that I was in a state of hypertensive emergency.  Translation: my blood pressure was dangerously high (180/120).  My doctor said it was aneurysm/stroke high (if untreated that kind of hypertension usually leads to death in 3 to 6 months).  He put me on medicine right away and ran some tests to make sure there wasn’t any damage to internal organs yet.  That was Monday. I went back on Wednesday for an MRI on my head & to check in with the doc again.  He put me on two more meds & it was encouraging that my blood pressure had come down some (160/112).  Anyway, when I started thinking of a gag for this week’s comic about mosquitoes drinking blood, guess what immediately popped into my head : )  The headaches are easing up & I’m keeping a positive outlook, fingers crossed that I’m on the road to recovery. I’ll keep ya posted (or die trying…KIDDING).  TGIF, my friends! We’ve made it through another week.  Happy weekend!  Get out there, embrace life & do something fun & healthy this weekend.  I’ll see ya back here next Friday with another Skeeter comic.

Cheers,

Lee