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   big G 3469 said, 4 months ago

   AHA!! I knew it it might be either High Blood Pressure or Diabetes!

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   Margueritem said, 4 months ago

   You HOPE, Baldo.

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   Carmy said, 4 months ago

   Dr. Baldo? At least Papi still has his sense of humor.
   Hi Marg!

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   ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

   Love the avatar, Marg!

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   imnshol2 said, 4 months ago

   I was just wondering if Baldo still has a job

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   Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

   Let the guilt begin.

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   LibrarianInTraining said, 4 months ago

   Actually, that guilt can be a pretty nasty thing. When grandma had her stroke, I was on the other side of the state, 300 miles away. All I kept thinking was, if I hadn’t gone to see my in-laws, she’d still be ok. In reality, there wasn’t anything I could have done if I had been here.

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   mfcoace said, 4 months ago

   Guilt, the gift that keeps on giving!

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   Rmom said, 4 months ago

   bigg - As a person who has fainted several times from a sudden drop in blood pressure (and it runs in my family) - that condition is NOT caused by having high blood pressure. We have normal blood pressure most of the time, but under certain conditions, that can drop suddenly, which causes fainting. Our doctors tell us that we need to eat MORE salt!

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    Rmom said, 4 months ago

    I do find it interesting that Papi fell forward. When I’ve fainted, I’ve always fallen backwards. So did my mom the one time I witnessed her fainting.

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    JonD17 said, 4 months ago

    LOL, Nice try “Dr. Baldo”
    @ RRAmom, 3 times in my adult life, I fainted, 2 as after effects of serious head injury and once to extreme dehydration; did face plants all 3 times. Psst; also cookin up a mess of my “specially seasoned” home fries for ya. You won’t need extra salt for a lonnnngggg time, LOL.

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    LibrarianInTraining said, 4 months ago

    RRAmom, want the recipe to my mother-in-laws baked potato slices? That’ll meet your salt quotient big time.

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    hymenoxis said, 4 months ago

    Being ex-Navy, I’ve seen more than a few people faint because they locked their knees while at attention, causing low blood pressure. They always went over backwards. My wife’s sister’s first husband did that at their wedding…ended up in the hospital with a fractured skull. Went over backwards, down the altar stairs.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 4 months ago

    If Sergio has the diabetic or blood pressure either, he better get well with the kind of medications for diabetic or blood pressure. I will keep praying for him to get better and stand his feet on the ground strongly. :-)

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    TheGrueAttacks said, 4 months ago

    hey Carlos where are You?

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    big G 3469 said, 4 months ago

    To RRAmom: on the third panel the doctor said that fainting could ALSO be caused by getting extremely angry over something & I since I suffer from both DIABETES & HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE I can feel with Sergio. Also don’t count out STRESS. Stress can be also a factor on Sergio’s fainting spell. I’m under medication for both H.B.P & Diabetes & I try not to stress out because of my high blood pressure So it’s a possability that Sergio has a major Stress attack, fainted & hit his head while collapsing during the fainting spell.

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    Burgundy2 said, 4 months ago

    Re: direction of falling and the bump on the front of his head. It’s true that people fall backwards when fainting. i learned that on MAS*H. I think where the contusion is can depend on what obstacles are where on the way down. I know a guy that fainted, fell back and yet still managed to get a severe cut above his eye.

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    Rmom said, 4 months ago

    bigg - My bp tends to drop dramatically (leading to a faint if I don’t lay down first) after a stressful event. My bp does go up into the high category during stress, but when it is over and I calm down, I really calm down. (My nurse during my last childbirth said she’d never seen anyone relax so much between contractions. I probably would have fainted, if I hadn’t already been lying down.) I have a friend with severe diabetes, so I am well aware that condition can cause one to pass out.

    JonD - Well, my center of gravity is probably on my backside, so I suppose the distribution of weight on a body might affect the direction they fall. I guess I’m glad I fall backward, as the goose egg on the back of my head I got from one faint would have been much worse to have on my face!

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    Rmom said, 4 months ago

    Thanks for all the offers of recipes with salt! Potatoes are the main thing I could never learn to eat without salt. (This was before I found out I’m supposed to eat more salt.) My family usually gets enough salt, if we aren’t forced to eat a “heart healthy” diet. That was how we found out about our genetic condition - Mom had a stroke, so the medical places always served her food w/o salt, and she kept collapsing. My brother was in for a heart cath, and his cardiologist told him to eat more salt. So now if we go into the hospital, we know to bring a salt shaker along!
    You can post your recipes, if you like, they do sound good.

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    LibrarianInTraining said, 4 months ago

    Re: which direction people fall when they pass out:

    Watch any America’s Funniest Home Videos montages of grooms/brides passing out at weddings (There are quite a few, I assure you).

    People have been known to fall either way. It depends on a few factors such as: what you were doing at the time (i.e. getting up from a chair, walking, bending over, standing still, etc.), your center of balance (dependent upon your weight/height), whether you simply pass out all at once, or things got fuzzy/black/spinning gradually (which happens rather frequently to my hub’s grandma, who is hypoglycemic. She gets vertigo when she stands up and stumbles a few steps before falling forward.).

    So it works both ways.

    RRAmom, I’ll hafta get the recipe from Hubs. Post it later!

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    LibrarianInTraining said, 4 months ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYEtM2KT-8

    See what I mean?

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    bald 716 said, 4 months ago

    hopefully papi will listen to what the doctors tell him to do, the rest of the family will have to help keep him following sensible eating habits. the rest f the family should follow them too

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    johnnydoc5 said, 4 months ago

    This happened to my brother two years ago, the doctors never found out why. He hasn’t fainted since though, so that is good.

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    LibrarianInTraining said, 4 months ago

    Oven Potatoes:

    1 stick butter (enough for four people. Decrease to meet your serving needs)

    Lowry’s seasoning (quantity varies by taste. Play with it a while and find what works for you)

    1 potato per person largely diced (1/2” cubes or thereabouts)

    (Notice we’re not real specific on recipes in this family)

    Preheat oven to 400. Combine ingredients in foil lined pan and cover with more foil.

    Bake for 1/2 for 1 potato, or a little over an hour to 90 minutes for multiple potatoes. (Check every 15 minutes or so for potato tenderness, just like any other baked potato, the knife/fork should slide in and out easily.)

    Serve (with steak is best, bthough hot wings work too. They’re pretty good by themselves with hot sauce or ketchup.) (or so my hubby says. hot sauce, blech!)

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    Rmom said, 4 months ago

    Thanks Librarian! Sounds yummy!

    Johnnydoc - Did they do a “tilt table test” on your brother? Fairly inexpensive test, but seems to be difficult to get the doctor to order it done. The medical name of the condition that runs in our family is called “neurocardiogenic syncope” - WebMD has one article on it, I haven’t looked at any other sites lately, but you might see if your brother has the symptoms.

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    johnnydoc5 said, 4 months ago

    They checked him for everything, and found a mild form of scoliosis, (unrelated). Everything else seemed fine, thank goodness.

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    hcantu said, 4 months ago

    Thanks everyone for making today’s Baldo pretty popular on the gocomics home page. You guys are awesome! [And yes, we’ll be getting Baldo back to work soon].

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    rabbitluvr33 said, 4 months ago

    would he know? i think not!

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    rabbitluvr33 said, 4 months ago

    jeepers!! nigh to death, an amputation of the noggin and all will be well…