Recently Ashley and I decided to play around with a stethoscope and blood pressure readings. At first we tried to do it the old fashion way, but Ashley couldn't figure it out. I was the one being tested so we kept joking that the darn thing didn't work 'cause I didn't have a heartbeat! (Ha Ha!) It was difficult for Ashley to pump the air through, and that's mainly because there was a hole in ours. Ashley attempted it multiple times just to see if we'd get the hang of it, but we didn't, so no heartbeat was heard. So then we moved on to the blood pressure monitor. Once again we had trouble working it, but then after Ashley came up with an amazing idea to bring it up to 160 instead of 120, it worked. When we did it I had to to get up to 160 just to get my reading, but Ashley only had to at 120. The monitor got hers right away while mine took a little extra umph! (Just my luck) Anyways, we learned about the lub and dub of the heart. The first beat of it is the lub, while the second is the dub, thus explaining why the heart is Lub Dub :) It was really difficult to find the heartbeat every time we tried, but it was a learning experience, and it was pretty neat to learn how to do it.
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