What a crazy week

[ThePresence]

Spent the week in ambulances and hospitals

Sunday morning I had to pull off the road and call 911 when I was driving and my wife lost consciousness and movement on her right side.

Decided to transfer from a tiny hospital in middle of nowhere with a completely incompetent ER doctor to a major university hospital.

She lost consciousness again in the ambulance during the transfer.

After all kinds of tests and blood work, etc. my wife was discharged late last night.

They are still unsure what caused it, but ruled out anything terribly serious.

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UPDATE:
We followed up with a neurologist who again didn't nail down exactly what it was, but told us that the first ER doctor was way off. In his words "the brain is a complicated and funny thing", and they can't always definitively know what causes what. All they can do is continue eliminating things.

 

[dabuddha]

Glad to hear that she's ok!

 

[Barfo]

Perhaps she fell asleep.

 

[dfuze]

sounds like a stroke. Hope she keeps improving

 

[darkxshade]

sounds awefully familiar to this friend of a friend I know... though she didn't lose any feeling on any sides but she would just randomly lose consciousness... something to do with the heart.

 

[ViviTheMage]

yikes! Hope she feels better.

 

[ThePresence]

sounds like a stroke. Hope she keeps improving

Cat scans and MRI were both completely normal, they eliminated stroke 100%.

 

[TwiceOver]

Gotta love doctors. "we don't know what caused it, but go ahead and take off, call us if it happens again".

My nephew is having siezures and they did the same thing.

 

[highland145]

Cat scans and MRI were both completely normal, they eliminated stroke 100%.

So, what's she think about your driving skills? Did you scare the crap out of her? Kidding.


Good luck.

 

[ThePresence]

Gotta love doctors. "we don't know what caused it, but go ahead and take off, call us if it happens again".

My nephew is having siezures and they did the same thing.

They gave her two CAT scans, and MRI, and EKG and an EEG to check for seizures. They also put her on anti-seizure meds in case she had a seizure without realizing it. There is only so much they can see. If everything checks out normal, which thank god it did, then there really isn't much more they can do.

 

[irishScott]

You need House.

 

[her209]

Gotta love doctors. "we don't know what caused it, but go ahead and take off, call us if it happens again. that'll be $10,000 please."

My nephew is having siezures and they did the same thing.

Fixed that for you.

 

[moshquerade]

That must've been so scary... for BOTH of you.
Hard to take the diagnosis of it being nothing, but that's where she's at with all the testing.
Is she afraid to drive now? Do they say she shouldn't?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Has she been in any tall grass or weeds recently?

Sorry to hear that though, hope she's better and its not recurring or anything serious.

 

[ThePresence]

That must've been so scary... for BOTH of you.
Hard to take the diagnosis of it being nothing, but that's where she's at with all the testing.
Is she afraid to drive now? Do they say she shouldn't?

She is afraid to drive, but they didn't say she shouldn't. She'll get over it.
There's only so much doctors can know. As the neurologist told me, "the brain is a funny thing".

 

[ThePresence]

Has she been in any tall grass or weeds recently?

Sorry to hear that though, hope she's better and its not recurring or anything serious.

No, she hasn't.
If it was something like that it probably would've showed up in the bloodwork.

 

[PricklyPete]

Holy crap...that would scare the shit out of me.

 

[Tweak155]

Frightening! Good thing she is ok.

 

[edro]

You should sue them for malpractice, for not knowing the cause of your medical mystery.

 

[ThePresence]

You should sue them for malpractice, for not knowing the cause of your medical mystery.

I should sue the crappy little hospital up in the mountains and it's crappy little incompetent ER doctor who got all offended when I told him I wanted to transfer.

 

[moshquerade]

She is afraid to drive, but they didn't say she shouldn't. She'll get over it.
There's only so much doctors can know. As the neurologist told me, "the brain is a funny thing".

Did they mention it could've been a "vasovagal" episode? They can happen out of the blue and sometimes with no known trigger. She just has to learn when she feels one coming on and try to divert it with strong inner thoughts.
Or to tell someone when she feels that way so they can help her quickly.

 

[ThePresence]

Did they mention it could've been a "vasovagal" episode? They can happen out of the blue and sometimes with no known trigger. She just has to learn when she feels one coming on and try to divert it with strong inner thoughts.
Or to tell someone when she feels that way so they can help her quickly.

Yes, but they discounted that. Don't remember why. She was in the Neuro ICU for some time, and they went through a laundry list of possible causes.

 

[ThePresence]

My wife just informed me that she's experiencing weakness on her right side again. Here we go again....

 

[rcpratt]

Uh-oh. Good luck...

 

[Gibson486]

You need House.

just gonna rule out lupus.