USS Clueless: Earth to Timi

That's worrisome because I'm not at all epileptic. I've never had a seizure before in life. Prior to this morning, I'd been feeling bad all week. I started feeling a little fatigued last Monday, but I was still on my cycle, so I assumed that was the cause. I sometimes feel fatigued & tired while on my period so I didn't sweat it. Tuesday arrives & I feel the same way. A headache developed, but I blamed that on stress.

Wednesday roles around, and nothing has changed. I had a huge headache, but I scoffed it off because I volunteered to make Thanksgiving deliveries for that day. As the day progressed, I began to feel really terrible. I came home & I layed down. On Thanksgiving day, I felt a little better. I cooked, I joked around with family and all that good stuff. I noticed on Thursday evening that my nose began to bleed. It wasn't excessive bleeding. It was the kind of bleeding that could be caused by sinus issues. I've had minor spotting in my nose before due to my sinuses, so I didn't sweat it.

Friday & Saturday pass with no let up on my symptoms. I'm beginning to think that I'm catching a sinus infection or something. By Sunday, I was laying in bed feeling like crap. I had a headache that was out of this world, and I was feeling extremely dizzy. My cousin advised me to go to the hospital, but I refused. I began to feel better later in the eveninging. My nose began bleeding more profusely. That frightened me because I've never had a serious nosebleed. The bleeding stopped for a while. I thought that it was done. I took some meds for the headache, and at about 2am I fell asleep on the couch.

I'm not sure how long I'd been asleep, but I awakened with the feeling that I was choking. I couldn't stop myself from choking. I had a serious piercing feeling in my head. My brother was awake & he said that he happened to look over at me & saw me shaking. I assume that it freaked him out because he began yelling. I could hear him yelling, but at that point I was only trying to breath. I couldn't breath out of my nose & I was gasping to breath from my mouth. That was the worst feeling ever. An ambulance was called. My brother grabbed me. He turned me over & began to push on my back. My airway clear slightly. I was lying on my stomach, and I felt my brother holding my arms & my shoulders. I stopped shaking.

I couldn't move though. The piercing in my head was horrible. My brother called my aunt. I think she arrived before the ambulance. I could hear them talking, but I couldn't respond. My aunt told my brother to keep me on my stomach, so that I wouldn't begin choking again. My brother said that had to move me because I was laying in a puddle of blood. Blood was coming from my mouth & my nose. I think that I was choking on the blood from nose. The ambulance arrived to take me to the hospital.

While at the hospital, the doctors were poking & proding me. I was asked if I knew where I was. I said yes. I complained about my headache. My brother brought a shirt for me to wear because the shirt I'd been wearing was covered in blood. The doctors initial diagnosis was a seizure. Then the doc recinded that diagnosis. There was no evidence that I'd suffered a seizure. I told the doctor that I had a splitting headache & the room was spinning. I couldn't barely breath out of my nose too. I was sent to get a CAT Scan. The scan appeared to be normal. There appeared to be some kind of pressure spot inside my brain that worried the doc a little. It looked like a little foggy space in my head on the x-ray.

I was asked if I had hit my head. I said no. I was asked if headaches occurred regularly. I said yes. A few more tests were run on me. At that time it was 8am. I'd arrived a few hours earlier. I asked if I could go home, the nurse said no. I couldn't be sent home until the doctor was confident that I was ok. The doc was worried because I'd had a similar problem before. That time I had to have fluid removed from my spine to figure out what was going on in my head. That was horrible. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to have one of those again. Also, the same exact thing happened to my father a few years back and his diagnosis was a stroke. The doc ruled out a stroke, so what happened to me was a mystery.

By the end of the morning, I'd been diagnosed with severed nose bleeding & vertigo. I was given meds, and allowed to leave at about 12something in the afternoon. I made an appointment to see the brain doctor tomorrow. We just want to be certain that there's no serious issues evolving the cranial area.

I feel much better this evening. My nose hasn't bled since I left the hospital. I've had a nap. My head feels better, so I'm sure all will be well. It's a good thing that my couch is leather or else it would've been really difficult to remove the blood from it. I'm extremely thankful for my brother. I don't know what I would've done had I been the only person home at that time. Angels were certainly looking out for me.