For real.
Sunday night, I started "stroking out" here at home. Weird feeling, that is. Kinda hard to talk to the paramedics when all that will come out of your mouth is, "Twelve".
Anyway, I spent over 16 hours getting CT scans (3 of those) and the all-not-so-fun lumbar puncture...aka: spinal tap. Nothing like a lightning bolt shooting down your leg... There was apparently a lot of blood in my spinal fluid and they started to freak. Next thing I know, I have at least 21 of those sticky patches all over my chest, arms and legs and I'm hooked up to one of those monitoring devices with a team of docs staring at it not saying a word.
While I was waiting on the CT scan results to come back (that took forever) I got my speech back and my motor skills in my left arm, but I still can't really hold on to much of anything.
Well, come to find out, I didn't have a stroke. They found about a dozen or so benign annuresims and two of those are questionable. I have a neurology follow up in about a week.
Nothing like blowing a gasket to put a damper on a nice weekend.
Sunday night, I started "stroking out" here at home. Weird feeling, that is. Kinda hard to talk to the paramedics when all that will come out of your mouth is, "Twelve".
Anyway, I spent over 16 hours getting CT scans (3 of those) and the all-not-so-fun lumbar puncture...aka: spinal tap. Nothing like a lightning bolt shooting down your leg... There was apparently a lot of blood in my spinal fluid and they started to freak. Next thing I know, I have at least 21 of those sticky patches all over my chest, arms and legs and I'm hooked up to one of those monitoring devices with a team of docs staring at it not saying a word.
While I was waiting on the CT scan results to come back (that took forever) I got my speech back and my motor skills in my left arm, but I still can't really hold on to much of anything.
Well, come to find out, I didn't have a stroke. They found about a dozen or so benign annuresims and two of those are questionable. I have a neurology follow up in about a week.
Nothing like blowing a gasket to put a damper on a nice weekend.