Physical therapy visit for knee injury was first step toward his quadruple bypass
Suzanne Marta, American Heart Association News
April 6, 2021
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James "Pete" Watt walked into a physical therapy appointment in April 2018 feeling unusually lightheaded and anxious.
"I just felt off," he said.
The therapist took his blood pressure reading. It was dangerously high – 200/100.
"You're not going anywhere until someone comes to get you," she told him.
Pete, who lives in Lake Stevens, Washington, called his wife, Lisa. She took him to an urgent care clinic. Doctors there recommended he get more testing from his physicians.
Nearly two decades before, doctors told Pete he had high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. He'd been taking medication and thought they were under control.