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Yea, I know what you are thinking, but let me finish. This year on Friday July 4th, I drank a bit too much. Walked around with a hangover on Saturday, but managed to go to the paint store and bought $700 worth of home remodeling supplies for our living room. On Sunday while working and sitting on the floor, I got what I’ll call a “head rush” I saw bright lights and got a little dizzy, but did not think much of it, thought I should eat or somthing, this happened again that night. I felt great on Monday. On Tuesday morning before work, I started to get the rush again, only this time it was accompanied by nausea and spinning. At this point I am scared! My mother had died from brain cancer and the only warning she ever had was some blurry vision, four months later she was dead. In a couple of minutes I felt good enough, (but not right) to go to work. I told myself I was going to be late if I didn’t go now, I only work eight miles from home and that I would call a doctor from the office. I never made it. After only a couple of miles in the car, it was moving around wildly, I honestly don’t know how I kept from wrecking. I pulled into a fire company/ambulance parking lot and called 911. The world at this point is spinning so violently I thought I was going to die. I managed to throw up, and then called my wife and told her to stay by a phone because I don’t know what is happening to me. The ambulance ride was no fun either, too much moving around, lots of throwing up. Once at the hospital, and after all the tests, they tell me it’s severe positional vertigo, there is nothing they can do for me, here are some pills, would you like to go home now? NO! I can hardly stay in the bed I’m in, let alone get into a car and survive a ride home. (In the passenger seat of course) Also my wife is half my size and could never handle me if I fell. At this point they said I could spend the night, the medications were starting to work, and I was feeling better. The hospital I was in is a teaching hospital, and one of the nice interns came to me and said, “Since you will be here all night, would you be willing, and do you think you could handle an MRI”. “Sure why not, I thought I had one though?” “No that was CT scan.” Well the next morning that same nurse comes in and says “good news! we found an aneurysm.” “This is good news?” I ask. Turns out it was, very few people survive a burst aneurysm, and most of those who do have some sort of side effects. I won’t go further into the details on this blog, but my aneurism was not the reason I was suffering from vertigo I had successful surgery and am happy to be alive. I am still suffering from vertigo and am trying to get an appointment with an ENT DR. who specializes in vertigo I am scared everyday that I will feel that way again. Yesterday I started to feel nauseous, lethargic and a little strange while driving. Not unsafe, just bad. Has anyone out there found a way to deal with the uncertainty this condition gives you? Will I ever be able to get on a plane again? Roller coaster? Bus, back seat of a car etc. I hate this, but if I had not found myself in the hospital that day, my days would have been numbered. Eventually all aneurysms burst. Thank you for listening.
October 2008
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