More Health News. . . The WTF edition

So Sunday I couldn't take thoughts and put them into words - the right words anyway. I could say the simple words but when it came to important words, like my address, the date, my sons' names. . . chicken. .. things like that, the words were malformed on my usually fairly articulate mouth. For about ten minutes. My friend, an EMT, was worried it might be a TIA, or mini-stroke (or transient stroke), and called 911 (with Steph). By the time the ambulance got to our house, I was fine and could speak clearly as I could before the "incident". I did have two 7&7's, hadn't eaten much that day (a cup of coffee and a tuna fish sandwich several hours before), and did have an anxiety attack ealrier thanks to the LOUD children and the chaos abound. I don't like chaos. at. all.

Anyway, to the ER of Regional Med Center. After bloodwork, EKG, chest xray and CT Scan of the head, still perplexed, but not concerned enough to put me in the stroke center. Still all very concerned. Still concerned enough to "keep me overnight for observation". Yah. Remind me not to fall for that one next time. Overnight became 48 hours of waiting around for doctors to tell me nothing.

Monday I had an MRI of the head and the found nothing. An ultrasound of the heart, which they found a weird valve. More bloodwork, and my sugar was kind of low, low cholesterol, and normal everything else. I saw a physical therapist and they evaluated me as perfectly fine physically. I then had to wait for the neurologist to come in at 4:30 to tell me they didn't know what was going on and that the episode could have been caused by stress, anxiety, yada yada. . . and thet he wanted to keep me for two more tests - an ultrasound of the carotids and an EEG. Grumble grumble. . .

Monday night I had a hell of a time sleeping, mainly because I needed to get home and do some work. I slept like crap and then, just when I had finally dosed off, the morning crew started shuffling in and making all sorts of noise. So no sleep for me. Instead, around 7:30 I was carted down to Ultrasound, and they were clear. Done, taken back to my room and no sooner had I put myself in a semi-comfortable position did the transport guy pick me up and take me to the EEG. The EEG wasn't ready but the woman doing the test pointed out that I had a LOT of brainwave activity. Of course I do, I have an anxiety disorder! I can't STOP thinking about shit.

Anyway, I was done testing by 10 and had to wait until 4:30 to see the doc so she could finally tell me they were discharging me but I had to come back on Thursday for them to look at me heart from the inside.

So, a fun few days of tests and no real results, just a doctor or two saying "We don't know! We theenk it might have been a transient stroke, so take some aspirin!"