Chen Dong chimed in from the side, "She is on medication. Whenever it's market day and we have time, we always have Grandma get her blood pressure checked. My dad even said that after we sell this year's rice harvest, he'll buy a blood pressure monitor for her so she can check it at home."
Blood pressure checks at the hospital were free, and a hypertensive crisis could be very dangerous, so the entire family—including Grandma Xu herself—took her condition very seriously.
She wasn't a stubborn old woman. Rather than end up paralyzed in bed and becoming a burden to her children and grandchildren, she was more than willing to check her blood pressure from time to time and take her pills.
Hearing that they had to wait until they sold the rice harvest just to afford a blood pressure monitor…
