aussietravellers
who LOVE disney holidays!
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2008
So... a few weeks ago I had a really bad problem with my neck, so bad that for a full week I was unable to do anything, couldn't drive, cook, anything, only lie down or stand up, I couldn't even sit. So I have been seeing a chiropractor for the first time over the last few weeks to help it. It has been getting so much better .
Well on the weekend I had this weird thing where I sort of lost half my sight! I could only really see my part of the right side of my vision, it lasted only about half an hour and vanished as suddenly that it started. Went to the ER at the hospital, the said sounds like a migraine (no headache) so they sent me home with a referral to have an ultrasound of the arteries in my neck and to follow up those results with my GP, just incase it was a mini stroke, which they didn't expect that it was due to my age and it just sounded like a migraine. So off I went with the form. Monday I called and cancelled the chiro appointment as i'd heard sometimes people can have a stroke after a chiro manipulation but that really is just those who have some sort of problem to bring it on, so I told them about the Saturday incident and that whilst it was 99% a migraine, they really can't be 100% sure so until I know what it was then I just don't want to take the risk. They were fine with that.
Called the ultrasound place, they had an appointment at lunchtime yesterday (monday) or Tues, Wed. I took the Mon, thought I'd get it out of the way even though it was going to be nothing as aside from the half hour funny vision problem that one time, there had been nothing else (I didn't consider my neck pain to be related). I go up at lunchtime, have the scan, leave and on my way to school pickup run in and pick them up with the intention of reading the results (
I know we aren't supposed to do that) and maybe see my GP later in the week to just confirm that it was a migraine.
Went back to pick them up on the way to pickup, parked illegally as there were no parks, left my mobile at home which was annoying but I figured I was only just going to pickup then home. I went in and they were taking a while, fluffing around. I asked if they were ready as I'd illegally parked and if not I'd go and move my car. They said, no leave your car. Then after what seemed like forever somebody came over and said, you need to go around to the ER. I said, no they just gave the request for the tests and I have to follow up with my GP. They said, you need to go around to the ER immediately they are expecting you. So I said, well I don't really understand, but I'm going to have to move my car. They said, leave your car. So I looked out and the car behind me had moved, so I just reversed into a legal parking spot and got out and went into the ER door next door to radiology. I walked in and two DR's came straight to me as I walked in the door and said are you "aussietravellers" I said, I am indeed. They said we have been trying to call you. I said oh i left my phone at home earlier today. I was taken to a room where they told me that I have a large tear in the artery in my neck and there were quite a few blood clots around that. I was not going anywhere
I have whats called Vertebral Artery Dissection, which I had never heard of, but you can get if from something as little as sneezing!!!!!!
I was just in shock. I just asked for a phone, I needed to call family and friends to get my son, to come to me as I was really freaking, to cancel the afternoon activities my son had. I was then sent for an MRA which was a nightmare, they had to give me two valium (which I had never had before) as I couldn't cope with the confined little space of the thing that they screw in place over your head.
So spent the night in hospital, am now on blood thinners, have seen the neurologist today, told him that I have a trip to the US in three months (priorities). Looks like I have had it for a few weeks, which is what my sore neck was all about. He said they will MRA again the week before I go but as my neck has quite a number of blood clots hanging out there, if they are still there I will not be able to fly, if one decided to go for a little travel I could have a stroke.
There is a risk of stroke now anyway and it looks like what I had on the weekend was a mini stroke (I don't have any damage, still just normal me
well as normal as I can be).
So I aside from this very scary thing going on inside my neck at the moment, having no idea how long it will take to repair and now not knowing if we will be able to go on our trip.
Anyway that's my vent for the night
Well on the weekend I had this weird thing where I sort of lost half my sight! I could only really see my part of the right side of my vision, it lasted only about half an hour and vanished as suddenly that it started. Went to the ER at the hospital, the said sounds like a migraine (no headache) so they sent me home with a referral to have an ultrasound of the arteries in my neck and to follow up those results with my GP, just incase it was a mini stroke, which they didn't expect that it was due to my age and it just sounded like a migraine. So off I went with the form. Monday I called and cancelled the chiro appointment as i'd heard sometimes people can have a stroke after a chiro manipulation but that really is just those who have some sort of problem to bring it on, so I told them about the Saturday incident and that whilst it was 99% a migraine, they really can't be 100% sure so until I know what it was then I just don't want to take the risk. They were fine with that.
Called the ultrasound place, they had an appointment at lunchtime yesterday (monday) or Tues, Wed. I took the Mon, thought I'd get it out of the way even though it was going to be nothing as aside from the half hour funny vision problem that one time, there had been nothing else (I didn't consider my neck pain to be related). I go up at lunchtime, have the scan, leave and on my way to school pickup run in and pick them up with the intention of reading the results (
I know we aren't supposed to do that) and maybe see my GP later in the week to just confirm that it was a migraine.Went back to pick them up on the way to pickup, parked illegally as there were no parks, left my mobile at home which was annoying but I figured I was only just going to pickup then home. I went in and they were taking a while, fluffing around. I asked if they were ready as I'd illegally parked and if not I'd go and move my car. They said, no leave your car. Then after what seemed like forever somebody came over and said, you need to go around to the ER. I said, no they just gave the request for the tests and I have to follow up with my GP. They said, you need to go around to the ER immediately they are expecting you. So I said, well I don't really understand, but I'm going to have to move my car. They said, leave your car. So I looked out and the car behind me had moved, so I just reversed into a legal parking spot and got out and went into the ER door next door to radiology. I walked in and two DR's came straight to me as I walked in the door and said are you "aussietravellers" I said, I am indeed. They said we have been trying to call you. I said oh i left my phone at home earlier today. I was taken to a room where they told me that I have a large tear in the artery in my neck and there were quite a few blood clots around that. I was not going anywhere
I have whats called Vertebral Artery Dissection, which I had never heard of, but you can get if from something as little as sneezing!!!!!!I was just in shock. I just asked for a phone, I needed to call family and friends to get my son, to come to me as I was really freaking, to cancel the afternoon activities my son had. I was then sent for an MRA which was a nightmare, they had to give me two valium (which I had never had before) as I couldn't cope with the confined little space of the thing that they screw in place over your head.
So spent the night in hospital, am now on blood thinners, have seen the neurologist today, told him that I have a trip to the US in three months (priorities
). Looks like I have had it for a few weeks, which is what my sore neck was all about. He said they will MRA again the week before I go but as my neck has quite a number of blood clots hanging out there, if they are still there I will not be able to fly, if one decided to go for a little travel I could have a stroke.There is a risk of stroke now anyway and it looks like what I had on the weekend was a mini stroke (I don't have any damage, still just normal me
well as normal as I can be). So I aside from this very scary thing going on inside my neck at the moment, having no idea how long it will take to repair and now not knowing if we will be able to go on our trip.
Anyway that's my vent for the night
and a speedy recovery.
If you do cancel, you're stronger than me 
