The paramedics think I've had a Stroke!!!!!!!!!!

The paramedics think I've had a Stroke!!!!!!!!!!

The visit is coming to an end, it has been a great time but for some reason much more stressful than normally.

We have some bits and pieces to sort out today and take a trip to Didsbury, Manchester to visit the bank, I have a bit of a funny turn and feel like I am going to faint in a shop. I'm OK after a couple of minutes and we continue and visit the bank, I have another funny turn and John goes to get me a drink of water, I don't receive it as I am now lay on the floor, Oh My God I am so embarrassed and just want to get up and crawl away!

unfortunately I am not able to get up and the bank teller calls an ambulance, I am dying of embarrassment, but the embarrassment does not last long as apparently I am quite ill.

John has the fun of trying to keep me conscious, I have no idea what is happening and before long I am unable to speak, I also keep passing out (and John says at one point he couldn't hear me breathing and had to actually slap me!!!!!)

The ambulance takes nearly an hour to arrive and the poor woman in the bank has had to call them three times, the last time they kept her on the phone as everybody was getting very concerned.

When the paramedic arrives he manages to sit me up and starts all sorts of tests, I have very little strength in my left side and my speech is slurred, it is at this point he informs me that he thinks I've had a stroke!!!!!!! I am only 43 what the hell is going on!!!!!!

The ambulance arrives and I am hooked up to all kinds of monitoring and there is now the thought that maybe I haven't had a stroke but they are still going to take me to a specialist hospital, my daughter calls whilst I am in the ambulance and John tells her I have fainted, we don't want to worry anybody at this point.

The ambulance driver is talking to me and my voice changes again and I can not speak, at this point all of the sirens go on and I am hurtled along the motorway, I can see the traffic jam moving out of the way through the ambulance window. This would've been very exciting if I hadn't been lay there thinking I was going to die!

I am admitted to Hope Hospital, and I can not praise the hospital and staff enough.

I have to have brain scans and all sorts of tests. luckily the day after, it is clear that I have not had a stroke, but a severe migraine mixed with a rapid drop in blood pressure, but the scary thing is that my natural adrenaline kicked in and I have an oversensitivity to adrenaline. so for a couple of hours there was a terrible battle going on in my body.

But I am well, I need to rest, not get stressed and get lots of sleep.

I think this was the most terrifying ordeal I have ever been through and poor John is still in a state of shock. But as I said I am alive, I haven't had a stroke, just a very real wake up call to learn to relax and this I intend to do!