artist12
15-05-18, 02:13
Just need a safe place to vent...
My uncle has had basically what amounts to a stroke in his eye, due to high blood pressure. Sadly he has gone from totally fine, on blood pressure meds for years as many are, to nearly entirely blind in the span of two weeks since it happened. It's irreversible and almost always happens quickly in the other eye after the first goes, from what I understand.
I'm of course heartbroken for him, he is only early 50s, and my mom (his sister) is taking it especially hard. She deals with anxiety as well and is now convinced we are all a ticking time bomb as hypertension and heart related issues run in our family. Last night she told my brother (who is 18!) and I that we need to start monitoring our blood pressure at home.
It's also stoked my fears again of a brain aneurysm...I just feel like I'm on the verge of panic and my mother is not helping. I know she's not responsible for my actions and my thoughts but I have felt myself retracting from her and the family because I can't take the constant panic from her, either.
I know I need to lose some weight and I did smoke in my early 20s so it's really easy to listen to my mom talk about how these problems run in my family and become convinced that this fate is waiting for me, too.
My uncle has had basically what amounts to a stroke in his eye, due to high blood pressure. Sadly he has gone from totally fine, on blood pressure meds for years as many are, to nearly entirely blind in the span of two weeks since it happened. It's irreversible and almost always happens quickly in the other eye after the first goes, from what I understand.
I'm of course heartbroken for him, he is only early 50s, and my mom (his sister) is taking it especially hard. She deals with anxiety as well and is now convinced we are all a ticking time bomb as hypertension and heart related issues run in our family. Last night she told my brother (who is 18!) and I that we need to start monitoring our blood pressure at home.
It's also stoked my fears again of a brain aneurysm...I just feel like I'm on the verge of panic and my mother is not helping. I know she's not responsible for my actions and my thoughts but I have felt myself retracting from her and the family because I can't take the constant panic from her, either.
I know I need to lose some weight and I did smoke in my early 20s so it's really easy to listen to my mom talk about how these problems run in my family and become convinced that this fate is waiting for me, too.