If your blood pressure (BP) is 140/90 mmHG or thereabouts, you either have hypertension or are tending toward it. You can check your BP from rising and even lower it with a careful diet. Begin with a heart-friendly diet called the DASH eating plan.
Power of attorney. A medical or health care power of attorney is a type of advance directive in which you name a person to make decisions for you when you are unable to do so. In some states this directive may also be called a durable power of attorney for health care or a health care proxy. The person you name may be a spouse, other family member, friend or member of a faith community.
One use for a durable power of attorney authorized by statute in most states is to give an attorney-in-fact authorization to make medical treatment decisions for the principal when the principal cannot communicate.