As the saying goes, "A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor." This is absolutely true, and I have a deep understanding of this.

I have suffered from high blood pressure for many years and have not been cured of it for a long time. Whenever I go to the health center to have my blood pressure measured, I feel extremely nervous, causing the blood pressure to be inaccurate and fluctuating. I kept changing my antihypertensive drugs, but the effect was not obvious, which led to the situation of "if you don't measure your blood pressure, it will be high, but if you measure your blood pressure, it will be high", which made me almost lose confidence in treatment. It was really miserable.

My daughter saw that I was nervous when I went to the outpatient clinic to measure my blood pressure, so she bought me a mercury sphygmomanometer from Renqiu. But my family didn't know how to use it, so the blood pressure monitor had been lying in a drawer for a long time.

My neighbor is a doctor, cheerful and enthusiastic. She learned that I was nervous about measuring my blood pressure in the outpatient clinic, so she took the initiative to measure my blood pressure at my home. While measuring my blood pressure, she said some relaxing words and introduced common sense about blood pressure control, which gradually calmed my mood, and I finished measuring my blood pressure without even realizing it. At the same time, she also adjusted the antihypertensive drugs in time according to my physical condition (I suffer from gout), so that my blood pressure gradually stabilized. Now, through medication and moderate exercise, my blood pressure has been controlled within the normal range, so I am infinitely grateful to my neighbor, Dr. Gao.

My wife suffers from diabetes, which causes fundus bleeding, blurred vision, and elevated blood pressure. Although my wife can control her blood sugar within the normal range by taking anti-diabetic drugs, her eye discomfort and blurred vision have become her concerns, and her blood pressure remains high even after taking multiple anti-hypertensive drugs. Therefore, my wife is depressed and worried. Dr. Gao often came to my home to comfort my wife with words, introduced her to the diet and life precautions for diabetics, and taught her that "mental treatment is better than drug treatment", which gradually relieved my wife's mental burden. At her suggestion, my husband took nitrendipine, 2 tablets a day, and a miracle happened: my wife’s blood pressure was 135/75 mm Hg every time.

Doctor Gao has been insisting on visiting my wife and I to measure our blood pressure for 5 or 6 years. He is always on call and is very serious and responsible. Whenever we talk about neighborhood affairs, my wife is always full of praise for Dr. Gao. She said: "My blood pressure has returned to normal, all thanks to Dr. Gao."