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Thursday, May 21, 2009

My weekend did not go as planned

So last weekend I planned on updating my blog with all the fun and crazy things we have been doing. These plans changed quickly and drastically. I had to work for a few hours Saturday morning and then was going to work on the blog. Well while at work my left arm started going numb. This had happened about two weeks ago and I figured it would just go away. I tried moving my arm in different positions to get some blood back into it. Then the left side of my face and mouth went numb. I felt like I had just visited the dentist. Still I only had an hour left of work and could head home. After my face and arm being numb for 30mins or so, I start getting this major headache and then my vision goes blurry. This is starting to concern me, but I figured it would all go away soon. I finally get home pick up Brandon so we could take Jaxson to a festival. While at the festival different parts of my left side would go completely numb and return to feeling. However I started getting really nausiated. I tell Brandon I need to lay down. I go to the car, but he follows shortly after and we go home. The second we get home I start vomiting uncontrollably. Which inturn increased the pain in my head. I was miserable. I think I scared Brandon pretty good because he called the hospital and they told him to bring me in. By this time my legs had gone numb so he carried me and Jaxson to the car.
The hospital was a little blurry to me, but I can remember the major parts of it. I come in and they start hooking me up to all of the machines. After asking me a series of questions and doing some preliminary test, then they tell me they think I may have had a stroke. This blew my mind. Next thing I know they called an "acute code" on me and I had 50+ doctors, nurses and technicians in my room running test and asking me questions. Next they tell me I need to have a catscan done immediately, but since I was pregnant they need to consult with an obgyn first. SIDE NOTE: Yes I am pregnant again. I am only 12 weeks into it and did not plan on announcing it this way, but many people know now and I did not want anyone to be mad that I did not tell them. Well back to the story. The catscan turned out clean so they decided to give me an MRI which took about 45 mins of not moving at all. Which was pretty difficult since I was vomiting every couple of minutes. Finally the MRI came back clean, but my potassium was low and my white blood cell count was high. They took a spinal tap and found out that I had a really bad infection in my body. After admitting me to the hospital for observation they decided the infection caused me to have a major migrane (I have never had one before) that induced violent vomiting and numbness in my body. I was released the next day, still with a splitting headache and nausia. I have been in bed ever since, lost 8 lbs so far and not able to eat much. They did do an ultrasound at the hospital and the baby was fine. It was bouncing around kick it's legs and looked to be having a great time.

2 comments:

  1. oh my goodness! that is crazy! I hope you get feeling better. :)

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  2. Congrats on your baby! I'm glad the little one's still doing well, but oh my goodness - what a weekend!! How scary! I really hope you're feeling better. :(

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