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The Daily Dash: May 3 2016 {My Trip to the ER & #TIA}
IN THE NEWS:
* IN primary key for Cruz
* Met Gala stuns
* US serviceman killed
* Obama drops the mic
IN MY LIFE:
* Since I started the Daily Dash a couple years ago, I don’t think I’ve ever stayed away for this long, but I have good reason.
Last you heard from me, I had stayed up all night with a horrible headache and ended up cutting off my hair, pulling out my eyelashes and driving into our mailbox. What you don’t know is that when I return home, I found the right side of my face to be drooping. After consulting with a nurse friend of mine to make sure I wasn’t crazy and calling my primary doctor, I was advised to have someone drive me to Vanderbilt ER.
They bypassed 45 people in the waiting room to take me back and I was swarmed in the hallway by a couple dozen doctors. Honestly, that experience was almost as scary as the physical symptoms I was experiencing. I was sent home later that night, being told I just experienced a migraine with side effects similar to that of a stroke.
But when I followed up with my primary doctor the next day and he ran his own tests, he quickly diagnosed me with what is known as a TIA. In layman’s terms, it’s known as a mini-stroke or a warning stroke. The symptoms can disappear almost as quickly as they emerge, and many have said it is a sign to slow down.
So that’s what I’ve been doing. I haven’t been driving myself and I canceled pretty much everything I had to do in the past week, including the St. Jude marathon here in Nashville, which my son especially was brokenhearted about.
I tell you all this not for sympathy, but for knowledge. I wish I had known something like this even existed, but now that I do, I want you all to be aware so it could potential he save your life or the life of someone you love.
If you have texted, message, or even reached out on social media, I appreciate you thinking about me and my family as much as I appreciate your patience as I seek to define a new normal right now.
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