Well, that was fun. Except not

[jeriendhal]

Off an on for the past couple of weeks I've been experiencing chest pains, coinciding with me getting off my overweight tail and trying to shed the tire that's crept up around my middle. I made an appointment for THursday to see my doctor about it, but last night things came to a head. All afternoon bits of my face felt numb, and by the time I got home at 6pm the left side of my face, my left arm and left leg were feeling numb and I was getting a headache. All the symptoms said STROKE when I looked them up online, so I called an ambulance.

Got to the hospital and until about 1am I was sampled and prodded by a very nice nurse and her equally nice doctor. Two blood tests and a CAT scan later, no burst blood vessels or angina had been found, and the doctor asked me whether it might be stress or insomnia.

Cue manic laughter. I've got a crap job, we're one emergency bill away from financial disaster and my son is autistic and having an exteremely hard time in daycare. Why on Earth would I be STRESSED? Gee

Naturally by the time I was checked out, I couldn't get a cab home (none of the @#$%ing cab companies I called picked up the phone) so I had to wake moonshadowed up and have her drag the kids out to pick me up. Thomas refused to go back to sleep so I've been up with him all night, except for a bit of dozing on the couch.

Oh, yeah, and I accidentally insulted one of the LJ admins when she contacted my privately to give me an Amazon gift card for winning the BOYB writers block drawing from a couple of days ago. Facepalm.

Comments

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Yiiiikes. At least it was only a scare, not an actual stroke. :/

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

That sounds scary. I hope you don't have any more problems of this sort.

[kodi]

Wow, how terrifying.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Ack. Good to hear it's most likely only (only?) stress. Here's hoping for a less stressful new year to come.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I am so glad it wasn't a stroke.