May 14, 2010 - 12:15am

Ali's blood pressure seems to jump all over the place.  One minute you can take it and it will be 128/72
and 10 minutes later it will be 108/64.... :(   The doctors have decided again that 120/80 is the threshold and more than that means a 3rd blood pressure medication (isradipine)...Tonight her blood pressure had been flirting with the 120's (taken on her leg) so the nurse mentioned that if it wasn't down by about midnight that the doctor had said to give the isradipine.  Well Ali true to form was up at about 11:00 pm rolling around and being very uncomfortable... until about 11:25 pm or so.  Then fell back asleep... so of course the nurse came in about 11:35 pm to take her blood pressure and .. 128/72 - off to get the isradipine.  They had also begun taking her blood pressure on her leg, other than her arm...  Well the 128/72 didn't sit well with me and I really don't want her taking another blood pressure medication.  So about 10 minutes after he had left I took her blood pressure around her left arm... 108/64 - Normal BP for a 3 year old!  So when the nurse came back about 20 minutes after that I talked to him about it and he took it again to verify and 111/50 - no isradipine tonight :)  More and more I associate her high blood pressure with her being in pain.  10 minutes before the high blood pressure was taken - she was definitely Uncomfortable!  After then sleeping for 20 to 30 minutes it was down to normal... coincidence?  If her blood pressure always jumps so much by her pain and anxiety level it is always going to be high while in the hospital, as everyone (dr. or nurse) that comes in upsets her... She has been sleeping soundly for about an hour now... hoping it lasts another 7 or 8 :) ...............