Did I have a Stroke?
After we had shared a piza and a glass of local red wine we were sat quietly reading.
Bent down to pick up some pages that had fallen out of the book I was reading and had a loud noise in my head, sat up and saw double of everything and felt dizzy and sick.
My immediate thoughts were that I was having a stroke! and was going to be handicapped.
As my partner and I were in the Camping car and on a site at a lake north of Rome, she asked a neighbor for help and called for an ambulance. In about ten minutes it arrive. I was vomiting violently all the time. The medics helped me into the ambulance and took me to the local hospital. Given my medical history they were concerned it was heart related.
I was examined carefully, with ECG, blood tests, x-rays, and a head scan once the vomiting settled down. This took some time and was eventually controlled by medication administrated by a drip.
My partner was in the waiting room of the hospital all night and had tachycardia attack and was admitted too. But it was soon controlled by a drip medication.
Eventually the next day, given that my blood tests did not show any changes in my heart condition, we were both released. My only remaining problem was my balance. I could not walk unaided and got dizzy quite easily so could not drive in spite of he Dr. saying I could.
When we eventually got home and I visited my GP. He did lots of Stroke related tests, gave my medication to solve the dizzy spell problem and prescribed a MRI scan, now scheduled for July 1, this to look at my ears and head. The ears are the suspected cause of my problem.
Two weeks on from the main event, I am pretty much back to normal and feeling good.
