RITTMAN, Ohio — Tanya Stehler was eight years old when a routine doctor’s visit turned into an emergency.
She had been complaining of headaches, and her parents initially thought she was trying to stay home from school. But when her mom Lynn took her to the pediatrician, the doctor checked her blood pressure and found something alarming.
“My blood pressure was 167 over 187 and at eight years old, like I was on the brink of having a heart attack or a stroke,” Tanya recalled…