Any medics here?- feels urgent

[Littlefootduckyspikeetal]

Sorry posting for traffic

im really worried about my MIL, she’s been having scarily high BP readings for weeks, I’m talking 205/110 from no activity. An older relative on my side had a reading 195 over something and was dead in a week. I’m quite concerned for her, but she doesn’t seem to have any other symptoms. Her cholesterol was mildly high but not a lot, and I know that’s not necessarily a big deal as some people have naturally higher than normal cholesterol despite being slim (me for one)

shes got a dr appointment on Tuesday to talk about it but we seem to be treading water here as it’s going on for weeks. She’s not on meds, doesn’t smoke, has a healthy bmi,
doesn’t drink, doesn’t eat much red meat… any clues what could be causing this and any tests I need to tell hubby to ask for? She can’t speak English so she doesn’t really understand what’s happening in appointments

type 2, I think it’s through lack of understanding rather than refusal, I know for instance certain things kind white potatoes need to be paired with something else to slow the release of glucose into the blood (think I saw it on the tele?) but she just won’t get that. She’s completely illiterate, can’t speak English and has never ever been to school not even nursery or primary. She’s from a community that has a higher predisposition to diabetes anyway and culturally the diet does contain a lot of white rice as the main carbohydrate. But how she’ll see things is i don’t eat chocolate and sweets and biscuits (which she doesn’t) I don’t eat junk food so I’m healthy, and swapping from white to brown sugar, she thought that was healthy.

well at the moment her kidneys looked fine and their function was good and no concerns there