Oh jeez hun. Hugs, prayers and some topical pain
relief! I do hope you feel better. I'll be thinking of
you and sending good vibes your way.

Meg MacLean
>
> ----- 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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