The Diagnosis
On October 27th 2020, I wasn’t feeling good (getting sick, awful headache, weak, and nose bleeds lasting up to an hour straight). For a while I had been having intense migraines and sick to my stomach at random times, which we just expected was from the awful migraines. We had mentioned this to my pediatrician but they just assumed that this was from me not having my period for 10 months. We decided I should go to the pediatrician to get checked out just to make sure. Never would i have expected to not being going home for two weeks. Never would we had ever expected the diagnosis that I received that day. The visit started with the routine blood pressure being took but, this time it was sky high at a shocking 180/120. Everyone just thought that the blood pressure monitor was inaccurate. They then tested my blood pressure multiple times with different machines and different people, all of the results coming out the same. They then told me that I needed to go to the emergency room to be ...