Good lord, girl, I'm glad you seem to be alright.
Hugs and prayers.

If anyone should have the nerve to ask what happened,
just tell them you had an erotic dream about LaCroix
and got carried away! ;->>>

Walt D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie of the Isles" <laudon1228@...>
To: <FORKNI-L@...>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:04 AM
Subject: PRAYER: Laurie uses her face as landing gear


>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
>
>
>
>


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