Aging parents and their ailments
Most of my friends who are in their late 30s to 40s have aging parents dealing with deteriorating health. While it’s fortunate to have healthy parents, mom’s recent ailment with pain of her leg really alarms us, that they are not young anymore.
Dad was recently diagnosed with mild hypertension and gout, he has to take medications to keep them under control. Fortunately the problems have not been too serious, he was able to get off the medication once the blood pressure and uric acid level went normal.
My friend’s mom recently had a bypass and is recovering from the heart surgery. Many of us are quite ignorant about heart attack risk and wouldn’t know what to do during a sudden cardiac arrest. You may want to check out www.insidecardiacarrest.com, where St. Jude Medical has put up information you need to know about the risk factor, warning signs and treatment of sudden cardiac arrest.
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