A little scare…

I had a little scare this morning, and by little… I mean a cry your eyes out, blood pressure through the roof kind of scare. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been having some problems. My head has been throbbing a little after physical exersion and I’ve been having short term memory issues. I’m having moments were I’m being told I said something earlier in the day and having zero recollection of it. I’m the guy who usually reminds people of conversations that we had a decade ago, and yet I couldn’t remember something I said or did that morning… which to say the least isn’t the norm.

After a little poking and prooding from Leah, I went to visit the walk in clinic since waiting two weeks for a regular doctor was too long. After speaking with the doctor for twenty minutes about what was going on, he filled out a referal and told me to go into emerg at the local general hospital. Being the fool that I was, on the way to the hospital, I read the referral which is where the scare came from. At the bottom of the letter was a one word line with questions marks around it. The word: aneurism. Not exactly what I wanted to see, and I began to get very nervous as I went into emerg.

After being examined at emerg, they were also concerned about my symptoms and order a full array of tests and a CAT scan. The scan was very quick and was a piece of cake, and the blood wasn’t too bad but they kept the IV in my arm for a few hours incase they needed more for later. One thing that alarmed them all was my blood pressure which was extremely high. Blood pressure has never been a probem for me, but since I was there for a specific reason, they all understood that I was literally ready to shit a brick while waiting for the scan results to come back. I was a tad nervous waiting for the results to come back, cause the doctor had hinted that I might need a lumbar puncture… something I knew would be a tad painful. But the scan came back later and it was clear. They still didn’t explain what I’m going through and for that they’re still worried. They sent me home for now, but want me to come back in to see the neurologist again very soon.

There wasn’t an aneurism in the CAT scan and for that matter anything else in my head, expect for a brain which was confirmed! They believe and stronly suspect the pain could be a sign of bleeding in the brain, but couldn’t tell where it was based on the scans. So for now, I’ll have to keep most physical activity to a minimum for now, and try to keep stress to a minimum as well to prevent my head from bleeding any more and possibly exploding. Not an easy task but I’ll have to try. It was a very stressful and scary day for me so I’m not going to do too much and just rest and relax before heading to bed early tonight. Once the kids are down for the night, so am I. I’m gonna have a fun time explaining this one to work tomorrow. I had to skip a shift today because of my emerg referral.

So that was my day… I hope everyone else had a better Friday and have a much better weekend.

Peter