dirtlooter
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I had been having terrible headaches and I mean terrible. I was working lots of hours and needed to be working even more. I went to the local small town doctor and it was 1st a sinus infection and he told me to take Sudafed. Then it had to be migraines. I was taking every kind of headache pill that I could find. I even tried Midol, desperate times mean desperate measures. I was taking Tylenol by the handful but nothing helped. ( I totally messed up my liver in the process). Then during the Memorial holiday, on Monday night, I had the headache that made me want to just die right then. I managed to make it to daylight and made my way out to the truck where the sun actually felt pretty good.
I lay down in the bed of the truck and passed out. About noon, the wife came home to check on me and managed to wake me up. I had her to drive me to the hospital. No one ever rode with her, she was the worst driver ever with the accidents to prove it (1st wife.) As I found out later, it was the next day before these doctors figured out what my problem was and finally sent me by helicopter to Sparks Hospital in FT Smith. 14 days later, after a clip was put in and the brain area cleaned etc. I was able to go home.
When I went in for my 6 week check up, The Neurosurgeon looked up and told me that there was absolutely no way that I could be still alive, he shook his head and said that he had never seen anything like it. I told him that God wasn't thru with me yet. He told me that my previous terrible headaches had been in fact, small brain bleeds and that when the blood was outside of it's normal place, it had become a foreign object on the brain. It was just the start of more bad things to come and they all stemmed from a miss diagnosed case of severe sleep apnea. Oh yeah, I didn't have a shirt on when I lay in the back of the truck, got really sunburned too. My blood pressure was over 200 on both the top and the bottom reading, the Sudafed had made it worse. Blood pressure, the silent killer! DL
I lay down in the bed of the truck and passed out. About noon, the wife came home to check on me and managed to wake me up. I had her to drive me to the hospital. No one ever rode with her, she was the worst driver ever with the accidents to prove it (1st wife.) As I found out later, it was the next day before these doctors figured out what my problem was and finally sent me by helicopter to Sparks Hospital in FT Smith. 14 days later, after a clip was put in and the brain area cleaned etc. I was able to go home.
When I went in for my 6 week check up, The Neurosurgeon looked up and told me that there was absolutely no way that I could be still alive, he shook his head and said that he had never seen anything like it. I told him that God wasn't thru with me yet. He told me that my previous terrible headaches had been in fact, small brain bleeds and that when the blood was outside of it's normal place, it had become a foreign object on the brain. It was just the start of more bad things to come and they all stemmed from a miss diagnosed case of severe sleep apnea. Oh yeah, I didn't have a shirt on when I lay in the back of the truck, got really sunburned too. My blood pressure was over 200 on both the top and the bottom reading, the Sudafed had made it worse. Blood pressure, the silent killer! DL
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