The Sneeze

    It was September 12, 2015, we were getting ready to run some errands when I sneezed and I had an excruiatring headache after but we still ran errands. 

    We went for lunch at our favorite restaurant, I think I ate half of my sandwich before feeling naucious, I threw up and the rest of the day was a blur. I was sick all weekend with the headache and nauscea, I couldn't keep anytrhing down, napping didn't help. I was still feeling like shit that Monday (September 14th) so I called off work, called my Dr. and was able to get in that day.      

    The Nurse Practioner was going to prescribe an antibiotic for a sinus infection but my Dr. stepped in and said I needed a CT scan, there is something going on so off to ER I go. I remember being wheeled to the ER and talking to the nurse wheeling me down there but I don't remember anything from then until I had to cancel a Dr appointment in Peru and call Joe to tell him I was being transported to OSF St. Francis in Peoria for a blood clot in my sinus cavity. I had a stroke.

    Joe followed the ambulance to Peoria, once there they rotorooted about 80 percent of the blood clot in my sinus cavity. All was well after that, I was talking, laughing and they were talking about discharging me on the 19th, by the 17th I went downhill the back of my head hurt, I was slurring my words, Joe said I wasn't right and told the nurse something was wrong. I was sent down for some tests, I don't remember anything after that. At some point, I ended up on a ventilator and a feeding tube. 

    One of the male nurses was being a jerk with my mom and ya'll my mom snapped. I have never seen my mom snap but she did that day.

    I was in Peoria for about a month before being transferred to Kindred Hospital in Sycamore.