Emergency Room Visits
Yesterday I was driving back from New Hampshire. I had been on the road all day from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm. I was about 30 minutes from home when I started seeing this squiggly, translucent "N" shaped thing in the middle of my left eye. I tried to ignore it for a while until the "N" turned into a sideways "V". The color went from clear and squiggly to a bit of a rainbow color. What on earth, I thought? My heart started pounding and my pulse went up to 102 (according to my fitbit watch). I drove to the nearest CVS to take my blood pressure. The first reading was 184/94. I thought to myself, "That has got to be wrong". I retook the test and it was even higher at 189/94. I got back in the car and drove to the nearest Urgent Care, where they told me to go to the ER ASAP. Yup, back in the car and drove to Baystate ER which was about 10 minutes away from the urgent care center. Luckily I found a parking spot right away. I walked i