It was 2nd july 2007 i woke up in the morning and couldnt walk properly,my right leg wouldnt work properly and later on my right arm wouldnt work properly and i couldnt hold a cup of tea with it either,i was now very confused,i spent the night before on a girly night with my work mates round one of their houses so i phoned karen,the one we spent the evening round her house to ask her did i do anything during that evening but she said no,i was online on a forum i usually go on as usual and ws saying about my right side not working properly and a couple of friends on their said to go to my gp,but they were shut on a saturday so then she said the nhs direct or something then they said go to hospital straight away,i had to phone my husband to come home from work,i felt reall guilty about that,only at that time.
I went to hospital with hubby and my 3 daughters,when i got out of the car my right leg felt really weird and would not work and kept being very strange,i cant expain in really but then it wore off a quite a lot and allowed me to walk alright once we got in the hospital,very strange.
They saw me straight away really,i told them what had gone on and they said it sounds like you suffered with a stroke!
omg! i couldnt believe it,then they said i have to go to another hospital so we drove there and i had a brain scan and had to wait long time for results,my hubby and kids gone home because it was getting pretty late in the evening,but just after they had gone a doctor came along and told me the results of the scan,it didnt sink in to me at first,i asked if it was ok for me to go outside for a cigarette the nurse said yes but have to go in a wheelchair,i sad thats fair enough so outside i went,i phoned my husband,he wanted to come back but it was late at night so he couldnt,he came up in the morning,they decided to move me to charing cross hospital in the morning,they would operate on my brain because i had an anurisym (sp) on it,they put a clip over it and i suffered another stroke coming out of theatre so they had to go back in and deal with a blood clot too.
They took me into theatre that next day for that operation and i came out of that one okay,i was hooked up to all this machinery and tubes and needles every where,i remember seeing my husband and i couldnt speak,i had a tube down my throat and one going up my nose,they took the one down my throat but left the feeding one going up my nose and going down my throat into my belly in,i still didnt speak for a few days,i didnt know how too.
when i did speak,i spoke really quiet soooo quiet!
i remember seeing i mum,i didnt think of it at the time,but i wasnt speaking to her before all this happened,she turned on me,she and my eldest sister because i wouldnt side with them ove a family agument,i chose to stay out of it as did my twin brother,he came to see me when i was in a coma after the operations for a few days, My dad and my other two sisters came to see me and my Father and stepmother came to see me aswell,they were a need and they did help lee my husband and my children,when i was taking my first walks steps the nurses couldnt believe it as it was so quick,i couldnt see where the problem was lol.My mother saw me walking and couldnt believe it either,its weird as its something like this gets her talking to me and my sister tracey and they come running but it could have gone the other way,what would have done then!
then goes on i see a speach therapist and a phisysiotherapistand times goes on and on,i improve when time pases but it comes to october 2007 i was at home,i had a few seizures and a fit at home and in the ambulance where i stopped breathing but the ambulance man got me breathing again......from that day i have to take medicine to prevent me from suffering fifs but ive had a few so my medicine has gone up and up and i suffer with seizures too,i havnt driven my car now since before this all happend either,i miss that too and my husband has given his job up to look after me,its really weird having him at my side for over a year now,he is there to talk to from morning til i go to sleep at night,when we go down the school to get my youngest,leah from school and taking her and shopping and he carries all the shopping,he is there for when i have a bath,cant get rid of him lol.
