Aniversary
At about 8.00pm this day last year having had a procedure on my kidney I began to cough in recovery, when I did so I would pee a little which isn’t something that happens me normally.
At about 8.30 I realised though I could feel my leg I couldn’t move it at all. I honestly didn’t think to much about cause my body is odd but thankfully Dave told a nurse who called for a doctor . By the time he arrived I could no longer move my arm an ambulance was called and took 2 hours to arrive.
I remember that ambulance ride, the driver was going so fast that every time her had to hit the breaks I felt as it my brain would pop out the top of my skull.
I was brought straight to resus.
My blood pressure was through the roof and my oxygen level was ridiculously low.
I don’t remember much after about that night that just faces I didn’t know moving over me, being lifted into various machines, not being able to breathe, Dave talking to me. I remember hearing them tell him they could only give me the clot busting medicine that would stop the stroke within 4 hours of stroke. All these memories are dark at the edges, it seemed like the whole place had tuned down the lights. Maybe they had! I do remember opening my eyes at one point and everyone was looking from me to the clock or their watches as time ticked by. 6 minutes to the dead line the call came down.
That’s all I remember until the next morning waking up and seeing Daves worried face.
It’s been a year now and it can still make me feel like I can’t breathe when I think of it all.
It was one of the worst nights of my life and unfortunately wasn’t the last one in the coming days.
At about 8.30 I realised though I could feel my leg I couldn’t move it at all. I honestly didn’t think to much about cause my body is odd but thankfully Dave told a nurse who called for a doctor . By the time he arrived I could no longer move my arm an ambulance was called and took 2 hours to arrive.
I remember that ambulance ride, the driver was going so fast that every time her had to hit the breaks I felt as it my brain would pop out the top of my skull.
I was brought straight to resus.
My blood pressure was through the roof and my oxygen level was ridiculously low.
I don’t remember much after about that night that just faces I didn’t know moving over me, being lifted into various machines, not being able to breathe, Dave talking to me. I remember hearing them tell him they could only give me the clot busting medicine that would stop the stroke within 4 hours of stroke. All these memories are dark at the edges, it seemed like the whole place had tuned down the lights. Maybe they had! I do remember opening my eyes at one point and everyone was looking from me to the clock or their watches as time ticked by. 6 minutes to the dead line the call came down.
That’s all I remember until the next morning waking up and seeing Daves worried face.
It’s been a year now and it can still make me feel like I can’t breathe when I think of it all.
It was one of the worst nights of my life and unfortunately wasn’t the last one in the coming days.
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