Saturday, November 19, 2011

Blog 4


  • Interview someone who is living with a chronic illness. What are their living experiences? What are they doing to try to maintain their health despite the disease? You may provide pseudo names to protect their identity.

The subject in whom I am going to interview is my husband. He is 47 years old, obese, and has hypertension, and is currently on hypertension and heart medication. At this time he is dieting to lose weight and reducing his sodium intake in order to improve his health and possibly be able to come off the medication. Over the past 6 weeks, he has lost almost 30 lbs. and his blood pressure has come down considerably since. At present he is on a 1500 a day-calorie diet that should have him at a healthy weight fairly soon.
            The reason that he is dieting and exercising is to avoid having stroke and a heart attack at an early age. He realizes the potential for these scenarios and not wanting to live that nightmare instead he chose to be proactive and reduce the risk factors that he has control over; most of all his weight and his sodium intake.