High blood pressure numbness; one and a half weeks post partum

It was Sunday night, Courtney was at a softball game, the boys were in the bath and I was washing their hair, when suddenly I couldn’t feel my right arm anymore. I slowly stopped what I was doing and went to call Courtney. When he didn’t pick up I went back to finish washing the boys hair, but as the numbness spread to my side and the right side of my face, tears started running down my cheeks and I couldn’t hide my fear from the boys. I tried to tell them everything was going to be fine, while I made sure they knew what to do if they needed to get a hold of another adult. I probably freaked them out for life. I somehow got them out of the bath and then went back to trying to get through to Courtney. Eventually he picked up and told me to call the AUC physician, which I did. The AUC doctor came over within an hour and suggested the numbness, which by now had almost entirely subsided, was due to a large fluctuation in my blood pressure. He gave me some baby aspirin and told me to go see a cardiologist the next day, which I did. The cardiologist, who was not only very professional, but also spoke excellent French, confirmed the AUC doctor’s suspicion, and prescribed me a medicine I can take should the numbness return/my blood pressure spike like this again, plus a blood-pressure lowering regiment. I liked that he didn’t want to put me on medication; most doctors I’ve met here who are not cardiologists have been very adamant about me starting to take blood pressure medication, and it was nice to hear a specialist say this wasn’t the best thing for me at this time.