Okay- so maybe it is not that drastic, but sometimes it sure feels like it. Let me explain. In November I was sitting in the chair in our office and bam!, as if I got hit by a lightning bolt, a sharp, intense pain hit one, single spot in my brain. It grew in intensity until I could not see out of one eye and had to lay on the ground in my bedroom. About an hour after it started I tried to reach my arm up to massage my neck to get the pain to ease and found that the right side of my body would not respond. I laid there for a few moments in a puddle of tears and drool (sounds sexy huh) not able to open my eyes or move my arm, so eventually I crawled up into bed and passed out. The next morning I woke up and stumbled into the bathroom. I had full movement back, but I was still a bit shaky and uncoordinated, none the less I got ready for work and drove off to my thankless personal hell. We had a meeting that morning which, even though I could not tell, I was told I was studdering through everything I said. I went back to my room and tried to write the warm up on the board, but could not get my hand to form a "n". So Don came and took me to the emergency room where I had scans done and after about a week the neurologists came to the conclusion that I had a small aneurism that was caused by a complex migraine. The good news is that there are no deformations in my blood veins and I don't have a sentinoid bleed, the bad news is, if it happened once, it could happen again. So the migraines continued. Now they have gotten to about 4-5 days per week. Sometimes they can even last up to 8 or 9 days at a time. Last Thursday I went back to the doctor to get a different type of medication (this one is suppose to prevent them before they occur), and when I got there they took my vitals and my blood pressure was only 88/58, which is low even for me. So she gave me the type of preventative medication that does not lower blood pressure. On Sunday I was in church in the hall and I got really dizzy and just fell on the floor. I don't really know if I passed out, but all I remember was telling Kyra that I felt dizzy and then looking up at people looking down at me. So we went to the urgent care and my blood pressure was 84/53, basically my brain was not getting much oxygen at all. So Monday, my doctor gave me a note releasing me from work for the rest of the school year because apparently I am not recovering very well while I am still there. Hopefully I will be able to recover better at home. So there it is- my really long story about how my brain feels like it is melting. Today I tried three times to stand up but found that each time I tried I almost passed out so a student had to push me to my classroom from my friend's classroom on her wheely chair. I spent the rest of the day on that wheely chair in the front of my room, luckily the students were doing the high school exit exam today.
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