Calling out the Piecers

[dday101798]

Seems like he only posts from work anymore. Maybe didnt make it in today, or no news is good news!

This is true for the most part, pc at home is torn down temporarily in light of cousin's son moving in, should be back up soon.

However, I haven't been there much since Thursday. Thursday I went by XW's for dinner since no-one else was going to be home at 'my place'. We made a great dinner together and were playing a game of Monopoly when I got up to go to the kitchen for something or another and then had the scariest moment in my life to date. I remember hitting the kitchen floor face first, then (x)W and S11 trying to pick me up off the floor, got me up and I went down again. Next thing I knew I was in her bedroom on the floor, apparently they walked me in there to lay down, but once again on the floor and gasping for air with them all freaking out and S12 calling 911.

From there it got shotty, I fogishly remember being in the ambulance and the EMT's yelling my name and the EMT attending me telling the driver to hurry up.

From there, on and off in the ER, and the worlds longest MRI at about 5 in the morning was when I started to come to full conciousness. HAd a batttery of test ran that were coming up inconclusive, except the same blood test my doctor had done months ago came up with a high count of white cells saying my body was trying to fight an infection. I told them sever times that I have no infected cuts or anything and they started to write it off just like my doctor did.

I sighted the numbness in my arm I had been having since September, they said they couldn't find anything, but obviously something was wrong as I had what they were calling a stroke.

I told them, yes my head has been hurting on and off since falling to the floor, but my chest hurts even more. They paid no attention.

So after a battery of tests all focusing on something neuro and being in the neurol ICU the for "the giggles' of it ran an eco-cardiogram (heart ultrasound) that ran longer than expected which I demanded they do first before what they wanted to do was a lumbar extraction (spinal tap) to see if the infection was in the brain fluid.

After not hearing anything, no results, no nothing other than this jerk Neurologist get all on my case that my blood/alcohol level was "too high by his standards" when I was admitted. I told him several times, we had just had dinner and yes I did have a few glasses of wine with (x)W while cooking and during dinner. He wanted no part of it, whatever. Anyway, all the sudden a nurse comes in and says you're good to go.

I'm like WTF?!?! "Good to go?" I also noted that unless it was the way that my port was affixed to my left hand, the numbness I had been experiencing is gone! She just says, weird, I note that to the doctors but you're clear. So she hands me a laundry list of vitamins, supplements and meds along with instructions for a............. Cardio diet.

Ummm, so did anybody ever plan to tell me what happened and why I'm on this?

The echo-cardiogram revealed that there was a cholesterol 'blockage' to the brain and that was the problem.

Uggh!

I'm fine, chest is still raw and a bit woosey driving, but overall fine.

(x)W was there for the most part, and she was great. She had to leave because now enter a new problem:

Upon my being taken by ambulance to the ER, (x)W took the kids over by our house and her brother agreed to take care of them for whatever the duration of time. However, at some point Friday morning, S12 decided to go back to (x)W's house to get his bookbag. (x)W had told ehr brother they needent go to school as they were traumatized seeing the way I was in convulsions and what not.

Anyway, (x)W called to check on the kids and her brother "overslept", and S11 was there but S12 was not. (x)W assumed he went to school anyways as he freaks about missing school. She called in S11 to the school and made sure that S11 had his lunch all together or what not and they said he wasn't there.

Long story short, he was nowhere to be found, and (x)W and I started to freak that he once again got on the train or something to come see me in the hospital. She filed a missing person's report and in all 7 villages were at point guard looking for him.

Later in the afternoon after riding around with the youth officer and seargent she returned to her house to find him hiding behind a bed. So that ended "well". S12 says that when he was going to get his bookbag he heard the bell ring and thought he'd be in trouble for being late to school. At the very moment she found him, police were coming into the house to investigate and this is where the real trouble starts.

(x)W is not the tightiest of mothers. Nor are two pre-teen boys obviously. The few times I had been there recently, I had been randomly cleaning up and (x)W as well as her father had been just fine with that.

Well, on Saturday I got the funny feeling that S12 little stunt was going to cause an issue. So, I started top to bottoming the house. The very last room to start was S12's. Shoot S11 was delighted to see his room clean whne he returned. You'd think S12 could own up and clean his own room? Nope. No sooner than I walk into his pig stye of a room, the doorbell rings and (x)W answers. Guess who? It's the Department of Children and Family services.

I managed to get into S12's room and close the door. It was a disgrace. Anyway, (x)W got the 3rd degree, the worker didn't inspect the house, but said she was an emergency repsonder and someone would be back. Never asked of my whereabouts and didn't know I was there.

Uggh never rains put it pours.

So she's up a creek now with the state and S12 needs to be supervised 24/7. We went to church and her health club on Sunday was a great day and made another fantastic dinner together, somethign that for whatever reason we didn't too much of before. She'd work on one aspect of the meal, and I'd work on another, but never on the same dish.

I took eysterday off work cause I just didn't feel comfortable driving alone. Still don't. Ended up having to get S12 frmo school as the perosn she asked to do it bailed and I spent yet one more night with them.

It's been a great what almost a week. I feel very much at home and S11 for one has been delighted. (x)W and had our issues here and there Thursday morning/afternoon and it got pretty emotional, but in all it went well.

Well crap that's my short story for now