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| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | |
| Posted By: FrogBlast <metafire@aol.com> | Date: 3/20/02 9:19 a.m. |
In Response To: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* (FrogBlast) : Just a small note for anyone who has tried to contact me over the weekend. I
: -Frogblast Thanks for all the get well posts;) I'm still in bad shape here, it might take a little while to catch up on the stuff that i've missed. Here's the story for anyone interested (and remember I'm still sick so details might be limited, and i'm not checking my spelling): I was driving my car to the mall, and I noticed that when I tried to focus on something, I couldn't see anything else... I was basically going blind. SO I got to the mall, had trouble walking around without bumping into people... and called 911 and told them I was going blind. So the ambulance showed up, and they strapped me in and as I was being transported I got a horrible pain in my head above my right eye. When we got to the hospital I was about half-way blind, in horrible pain, and feeling very sick to my stomach. So the doctors in the ER decided that I either had a migraine, or an aneurysm. I've never had a migraine before, and since I had never had one before, and since this one was so bad... they decided to make sure it wasn't actually a leaking aneurysm. So... how do you check for an aneurysm? With a spinal tap of course! So they gave me a spinal tap... I came home, it turned out it was just a horrible migraine (and I'm probably going to have more migraines before I turn 40... something to look forward to) But, in any case, Everything should have been ok around monday... right??? Wrong. Turns out the ER doctor who did the spinal tap did a really bad job, and I was leaking spinal fluid. What did that mean? Headaches about 10x worse than the migraine... I don't know if I can explain that any better than to say that the headaches were so bad that you would take the pain medication, but the pain was so strong anyway that you would vomit (lose the pain med) and then the pain would be so strong that it would send you into shock. Well... I went into shock at a bank teller window, and was promptly rushed back to the ER... WHERE THEY TOLD ME TO PLEASE BE SEATED AND WAIT TO BE REGISTERED.... Well... after displaying just how "in shock" I was to the entire waiting room, I was quickly rushed back into an ER room... but this time I lucked out and got good doctors (and a cute nurse,) and they gave me a blood patch (that's blood sucked from your arm and injected into the spinal tap wound to patch over the leak.) The pain was gone almost immediately... but they hit a few nerves in my hip... so I'm in much better shape... just walking like a 90yr old with arthritis... but feeling much better and hopefully playing Halo soon againi. So that's the story, sorry about the vomit part:)
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| *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | FrogBlast | 3/18/02 8:13 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Louis Wu | 3/18/02 8:14 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Djof | 3/18/02 9:32 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Jay | 3/21/02 8:30 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | SpudBoy | 3/18/02 9:33 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Warbow | 3/18/02 9:57 a.m. |
| best wishes, foo | Douglas | 3/18/02 9:58 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | poena.dare #CP# | 3/18/02 10:06 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Ryan | 3/18/02 11:09 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | CYBRFRK | 3/18/02 12:55 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | vector40 | 3/18/02 8:45 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | CYBRFRK | 3/19/02 4:56 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | FrogBlast | 3/20/02 9:19 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Louis Wu | 3/20/02 9:56 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | CYBRFRK | 3/20/02 9:58 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Warbow | 3/20/02 10:00 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Lophan | 3/20/02 10:28 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | vector40 | 3/20/02 6:16 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Tarrsk | 3/20/02 8:04 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | HaPpYhIpPo32 | 3/21/02 8:37 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Shovelface | 3/21/02 6:47 p.m. |
| Spinal Taps suck | Mr. Zarquon | 3/21/02 6:55 p.m. |
| Re: Get well soon! | Appleicious | 3/21/02 8:03 p.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | tumbleweed | 3/21/02 8:33 p.m. |
| Talk about mud flaps... | Louis Wu | 3/21/02 9:36 p.m. |
| Re: Talk about mud flaps... | Tumbleweed | 3/22/02 8:43 a.m. |
| Re: Talk about mud flaps... | Louis Wu | 3/22/02 8:51 a.m. |
| Re: Talk about mud flaps... | Tumbleweed | 3/22/02 2:50 p.m. |
| Re: Talk about mud flaps... | Louis Wu | 3/22/02 2:59 p.m. |
| ROTFL *NM* | Warbow | 3/22/02 3:04 p.m. |
| Hope u'll get better soon.... *NM* | Djoey.154 | 3/22/02 12:31 a.m. |
| Re: *OT* FrogBlast's Health *OT* | Elvish Archer | 3/22/02 6:49 a.m. |
| Ow... Harrowing story.... | Noctavis =PN= | 3/22/02 12:08 p.m. |
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