annanotbob2's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIA Well, I'm just back from the hospital after having a TIA which is a mini-stroke, for fuck's sake. It only lasted a few minutes, but I couldn't control my arm and couldn't speak and although my mouth and face weren't lop-sided we knew enough to be scared and Bloke called 999. Before that conversation was done, I was fine again and took over the phone but the guy said, nah, dodgy, I'm gonna get an urgent care doc to call you, which happened within moments and that guy said it was def dodgy and I needed checking out so to go to A&E, with my mask, no one else. Bloke gave me a lift and I know what it's like so I took my kindle, my phone, a charger, some water, my purse. Kept my slippers on. I was seen pretty quick, ECG, bloods, wait, then a doctor, who said a CT scan, so I had that then more waiting, then the doc came back and said there was an area where something had happened though not clear what, not obviously a bleed or a clot, but something. As everything else was fine - and I have been inspected and checked over from head to foot - they let me come home and have referred me to a TIA clinic and I should hear from them probably tomorrow or soon after. Meanwhile 300mg of aspirin every day and don't drive for a month! Noooooo! But there are buses and I have had my vaccine so by next Monday I'll feel safe on the bus, I should think. Just wanted to get this down while it's fresh in my head and I'm too stirred up to sleep just yet. Three good things 2:19 a.m. - 01.03.21 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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