Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

I need y'all to pray for me about something.  You see, I'm home alone the rest of the week (which I wasn't going to divulge, but now am) because Tom is out of town on a business trip and won't be back until Sunday evening sometime.  He left yesterday, so I was alone last night for the first of four nights alone.

Anyway . . . I think I may have had a seizure last night and fell and hit my head.  Here's what happened:

I sometimes have spells when I get really light headed and attribute that to a couple of things.  One is from moving too quickly from one position to another, which causes me to become very light headed for a minute or so usually.  It is caused from my body not responding very well to fast changes because of being diabetic so long (37 1/2 years).

The other, and maybe related, thing that happens is that my blood pressure will drastically drop all of a sudden, and usually when I go from a sitting position to a standing position.

Last night about 8:15 p.m. I was sitting watching TV and mainly just piddling around when I decided to walk into the kitchen to make some more tea.  As I came around the counter to the sink, I suddenly got really badly light headed.  I thought that I could just stand there for a minute or so maybe and it would get better.  But it didn't really.

While I was standing there I decided I could at least put a couple of dishes in the dishwasher to the immediate left of the sink.  As I was doing that, I became intensely light headed and then started to shake really badly with my arms sort of flailing around at my sides with me unable to control my movements.

As that happened, I suddenly, and without being able to stop myself, fell straight backwards pretty hard onto the kitchen floor and hit the back of my head hard on the tile.  

By the time I hit the floor, I had stopped shaking and felt okay, but just lay there a couple of minutes to make sure I was in one piece and that it was safe to try to get up.  I put my hands behind my head to cushion it from the hard floor and prayed I'd be okay.

I finally got up slowly and decided to go back and sit down for a while before I tried to do anything else.  I also tried to call Tom to tell him about it and let me tell you, I wished desperately he was there with me to help me.

But, of course, the first thing he said when I finally got hold of him about an hour later was that I should have called my son, Mark, to come take me to the hospital in Slidell.  But, I told him it just lasted a couple of seconds and that I wasn't really sure what had happened and that I was now fine, which I was.

Plus, I've got a doctor's appointment this afternoon in Slidell and will be sure to tell the doctor about my bad spell to see what he thinks.  I'm seeing the kidney specialist who's been treating me for a while in conjunction with some loss of function in my kidneys from being diabetic.

I also have to take a couple of diuretics every day because I have a form of congestive heart failure and that causes my sodium levels in my blood to be real low, which this doctor told me once can lead to seizures.  So, I don't know if that's what I had momentarily or just real low blood pressure and light headedness that got momentarily severe or what.  

Of course, if I'd gone on to the hospital last night they could have (would have) run some blood tests to see if my sodium was real low or not.  I lead a real balancing act of a life trying to manage all of my health problems at the same time.  It's always a fight to keep everything in balance and under control.

I was fine after that one episode and felt okay the rest of the evening.  I went on to bed a little after 9 p.m. and watched TV for a while until I got too sleepy to stay awake.  My blood sugar got really low about the time I was going to bed, so I had to drink a Coke for that to get it back up.  I also ate some candy to make sure my sugar wouldn't get too low during the night while I was sleeping.

I also talked with Tom again who said he would call me this morning to see how I was doing, and he did.  He woke me up, but that was fine.  I told him I had a good night and that I'm feeling fine except for a sore bump on the back of my head where my head hit the floor hard.  

I've also been praying about it all that it won't happen again.  I called Mark before I went to bed to tell him about it so he would be aware that I was here alone and to tell him what had happened.  He was very concerned, of course, and said to call him if I thought I needed to go to the hospital.

I really don't want to because I am alone and it would be up to Mark to have to see about me and look after me and he has his plate full with his three little ones and Lynn.  They live here in Picayune and he works in Slidell where I would want to go to the hospital, but just have one vehicle and it would be really difficult for me to add the burden to him of having to see about his mother!  I'm fine.

The doctor today will probably jump all over me for not going to the hospital, but I felt okay after it happened and can't tell that I suffered any side effects, like a concussion or anything.  I didn't get light headed any more the rest of the night or anything.

Plus, Tom told me to put a chair in the middle of the kitchen so that I would have a place to sit down real quick if I got light headed again while I was home alone, so I did that.

Y'all pray for me, if you will, that I'll be okay the rest of the week and that everything will prove to be all right.  I'm sure the doctor today will want to do some blood tests to see what my blood chemistry is so we'll hope that the sodium is at an acceptable level and all.

I'll follow up here and let you know what all the doctor today has to say.  Tom is going to call me again this afternoon sometime and this evening.  He is in Norfolk, VA for a convention.

That's it for now, I guess.  Cheers & Blessings to you all today!  Much love, Dee

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