uSee Us Bus - Arthur & Carol Stroud's Travels

What a way to end the year. My tongue started to swell and about an hour and a half later I was in Waikeri Hospital where they were ready to do a Tracheotomy if I got any worse and my wind pipe was closed of. My tongue swelled (not a pretty sight as you can see) so much that the was no room for it in my mouth and it was so jammed between my teeth that it was sore and bruised for days. I could not swallow but could still breath through my nose. They pumped me full of stuff and, thankfully the swelling started to reduce immediately I was kept in over night and was brand new again in the morning. Amazing. Gave me a bit of a scare to say the least. Just as well we were not too far from medical help or I would have been a gonner unless Arthur had been game to cut into my throat. What caused it? you ask. It was a reaction to my blood pressure pills which contain RAMIPRIL - REMEMBER THAT ONE I had been taking this for years and am told this usually happens only rarely to people in the first few days of medication. If you are on it carry Phenergan always.