Everywhere I put my stethoscope on this guy, all I heard was a tight whish, whish, whish, carotid arteries in his neck, his radial arteries, his femoral arteries, and even his renal arteries in his lower back. They were as hard as the pipes he used to fit together as a plumber before he retired two weeks earlier. He didn’t yet know he retired, but he did. His blood pressure was running 270/240 never had seen blood pressure that high before, never seen it that high since. His heart was two thirds the width of his chest.