Search and Seisure

I see that both my sisters have both beat me in posting this, but I am going to tell it from my view, since the majority of the drama happened to me. So here is my story:

I woke up yesterday morning on the couch to the sound of my cell phone alarm. I had fallen asleep on the couch the night before, so waking up there did not alarm me...Zach, who was 62 miles away for a "Rotation" for Pharmacy School (kind of like an internship that he doesn't get paid for since he is getting college credit for it,) called me soon after my alarm went off and I was saying things like, "blood is all over the couch and floor," "where am I where am I?" "I am confused!" "Why are there clothes all over chair?" I was also talking about how I had to get to work, then about the blood again, then the clothes and my confusion....all in a mixed up mess! Apparently sometime early that morning sometime (7ish?), I had had the seisure and somehow fell off the couch and hit my nose on the floor, hence the blood on the floor (from my nose and face) and then regained just enough state of mind to crawl back up on to the couch. Just like last time when I'd had state of mind enough to cover myself (I was only wearing undergarments that time) in front of the police and EMT.

So Zach told me to WAIT, that he was calling Cindy to come get me. I think that is when I discovered the crustiness on my face, I went into the bathroom and saw that it was dried blood. I wiped it off as best my fuddled mind could and sat down and waited. I don't remember much after Cindy got there, I just remember she got there really quick! I remember walking into the emergency room and waiting a minute, then they showed me to a bed.

Once I was lying in the bed I remember coming a little more out of my disoriented confused state of mind. I remember several nurses/doctors came in and I had to tell them the story over and over. Then Zach got there (he drove the 62 miles in less than 45 minutes!) He calmed me down some more and it was nice having two family members around. After about three hours, the nurses came in and said they were bringing me upstairs to a room as there had a been a trama (we learned later that two vans collided in town and lots of people were injured!) and they need our emergency bed. This was fine with me, last time I had a seizure, it took about 6 hours to get upstairs.

I had a total of two CAT scans while there--one yesterday morning, before I was out of ER and the other this morning. Yesterday they found blood on my brain which was abnormal, but not too threating. On the Scan this morning, they found that the bloodhad not increased which meant that it was either a very slow leak, or just from hitting my head the day before during my seisure, no active bleeding (very relieving.)

It was wonderful having so much family and friends come visit me. Amber surprised us and came up, as well as my Mommy, Denis and Glenda, Jeremy, Ryan and Joanna, Nikki some friends from church and one of my coworkers(Ginny). It really is kinda exciting when the nurse has to kick all your visitors out so you, the patient, can get some rest hehe.

You can see where I must have rug-burned my nose when I seizured...

Around 11ish this morning, the nurse said she was going to try and get me up and walking. She had to strap this pink belt strap around my waist so if I fell down, she could catch me and let me down easy...first thing I thought of was that pink harness mom used to strap to Cindy so she wouldn't wander away (possibly me too at some point.) :) Then I was a little embarrased when I saw another nurse using the same thing on a crippled 80-some-year-old woman. Hehe!

Well, I am home now...and walking around woozily like a drunken person! I'm also really sore and feel wiped out. Zach says it's from the injected seizure meds from yesterday. My Doctor said he doesn't want me to go to work until my nuerologist sees me next tuesday...

Here is the white board that my family wrote/drew on for me. Mostly personal "jokes" that most people might not get. Mom took this picture before Zach and Ryan had written on it. Zach wrote later ,"Love you Dubba!" and Ryan wrote, "I CU."