as a lot of you know, my DH is in the hospital, having just had some drastic surgery to rid his body of cancer. In the ICU they don't expect to find athletic people. when your heart beats at 60 beats a minute and normal blood pressure for you is 115/80 that means if you are a little droopy (as most people are) the alarms in the ICU are constantly going off. Today, as DH falls asleep, his bp drops and the alarms go off, which then wake him up. it's kind of like torture. also a lot of pain meds drop the blood pressure so they have to give them other stuff to bring it up. they finally let my DH stand up this afternoon and he wanted to walk but because of his low BP they said if we let you walk we'lll get fired with those numbers.
pretty frustrating.