I had a big scare yesterday just before noon today. I
had just taken a sip of
coffee, and I started laughing over something on in an
email. I started to
choke, so I bent over to spit the coffee into the
wastebasket (it had a
plastic bag in it). Next I must have tried to get up
to get to the bathroom,
but I'm not sure, because the next thing I knew, I was
coming to (regaining
concsiousness) on the floor. For a few moments I had
no idea where I was or
what had happened, I started to cry, then called out
for my Mom. Then I
remembered that she had just left for a follow up with
her oral surgeon. I
started to remember what had happened prior to waking
up. The right side of
my forehead, my right temple and a bit under my right
eye were stinging like
hell from my face hitting the carpet. To add insult to
injury I had pissed
myself a little bit when I lost consciousness.

I got myself to the bathroom, and started to cry
again. A look in the mirror
confirmed that my face was really badly abraded. I
was together enough to
cross the house to get the Bactine in my mother's
bathroom. I cleaned up the
abrasions a bit, though it stung like hell. I was
really shaken up, scared
to be alone, so I changed my underwear and put on some
street clothes, left
a message on the cell phone Mom was carrying, and
called our next-door
neighbors. They are a very sweet British couple in
their seventies. Even
though they had just sat down to lunch, the wife came
right over, and the
husband followed shortly. He left after a bit but B.
the wife, stayed with
me 'til Mom got home. I noticed while I waited that my
neck hurts as well.

My doctor's office is closed between noon and 2:00pm,
so at 2:00 I called
them, and they told me to come in at 3:15.

Well, apparently, it was a combination of the fact
that I was coughing from
the choking, which the doctor says causes a "bearing
down" which he says
slows the heart rate, with standing up at the same
time. Even in healthy
people, sometimes when you stand up too fast, the
blood stays in the lower
parts of the body, and you feel a little lightheaded.
Combine that with the
fact that my blood pressure has been high, and Laurie
does a really good
impersonation of a felled tree. Only the tree doesn't
lose continence.

The upper right side of my face looks like hamburger.
My neck hurts on the
left side, and it goes down into my back over my
shoulder blade. Both my
index fingers hurt. Since I lost consciousness and
smacked the floor, my doc
sent me for head and neck x-rays, and they x-rayed my
left index finger. I
don't think it's broken, I think I sprained it. He put
me on blood pressure
medication and gave me a scrip for Bactroban for my
face.

The radiologist said he would call us before 7pm if
there were anything
wrong with the x-rays, and we didn't hear anything, so
I guess it's all
muscular.

I have a feeling the aches will be worse the next
couple of days.

Laurie of the Isles