The High Blood Pressure Story

This true story happened in 2002

Written 1/2002* 542 Words*

By Howard Yasgar

It was in the summer of 2002 when my wife and I were in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys.

I needed a new pair of reading glasses, so we thought it would be easy to find a local Optometrist.

My wife thought she had seen one advertised in the local Islamorada shopping center, so we drove over there.

Shure enough, she was right, there was an Optometrists office located there.

We both went inside, and there standing behind the counter was a very nicely endowed young woman with one hell of a cleavage and she was proudly displaying it the best she could.

She appeared to be very young, but she assured me that she was a licensed Optometrist.

Trying not to stare, I told her that I would like to buy two pairs of reading glasses.

She said that unfortunately I would have to go through a full eye examination to obtain a prescription, so I agreed to do it.

While my wife took a seat and started reading a magazine, I followed the nicely endowed Optometrist into the examination room.

Once in the examination room I sat down in the Optometrist’s chair, and she said that she needed to take my blood pressure before we started the exam.

I thought that strange because I never had an Optometrist take my blood pressure before an exam. But what the heck, I knew my blood pressure was always normal anyway.

As she prepared to take my blood pressure, she was leaning over me with her bosom no more that a inch or two from my face, and I couldn’t help but stare at her cleavage as my nose was practically in it.

She pumped up the blood pressure machine and stared at the dial.

She said, “My goodness” your blood pressure is very high, it’s so high that it’s off the scale.

I became very alarmed and I asked her, what should I do.

She said I needed medical attention right away.

Fortunately, right next to the shopping center was the Florida Keys Mariners Hospital.

I told my wife what the Optometrist had said that my blood pressure was so high it was off the scale.

So, my wife immediately drove me to the emergency room at Mariners Hospital.

By now I was sweating profusely and I was fearing the worst.

As we registered at the emergency room desk, the receptionist asked what was wrong and I told her that the optometrist said my blood pressure was so high that it was off the scale.

She went into action immediately, and she rushed me into a room and hooked me up to a blood pressure machine.

You can be sure I was really concerned as to what she would say, was I having a heart attack?

She said, “Who told you your blood pressure was high”, so I told her it was the pretty Optometrist with the big boobs.

The nurse laughed and said my blood pressure was perfectly normal.

The Mariners Hospital didn’t charge me for the blood pressure test, and I bought my glasses in Miami.