re: #74 goddamnedfrank

High stress situations are a bitch, being Senator and giving a rat’s ass about the job must come with risks. It’s a miracle I survived my hypertensive crisis without blowing out or permanently damaging anything of value. I went in with a BP of 220/180 and they put me on anti seizure meds during my stay purely as a prophylactic. Had a bad pain reaction to the IV shunt that sent me vasovagal in the ER, got the whole sublingual nitroglycerine treatment from an very nice nurse. Spent a few days in the ICU, got jelly spread all over my torso by an echo tech that was a dead ringer for Michelle Rodriguez … awkward but fun. I was a liberal before but the whole experience made the whole healthcare debate intensely personal.

Nitroglycerine, eh? Is that why you get explosive at times? ;)

/not trying to make light of your illness, Frank.