Just Another Day

It's been an eventful few days.

The hilarious teletubby photo is me in the hospital undergoing a seizure study. They glued about 30 electrodes to my head and then wrapped me up like that to help keep them attached.

So why am I in a hospital bed getting a seizure study, on a heart monitor, and connected to a Christmas tree of iv's? Well, it started with a sharp pain on the side of my chest. It got significantly worse when I took a breath. Then I spiked a fever and it was a done conclusion for an ER trip, as discouraging as that conclusion was.

I get checked in and sent to the triage window. I started to feel really poorly and am trying to tell this to the tech. The next thing I know I wake up on a gurney in the middle of the ER lobby. I had had a seizure.

Fast forward to now. The pain is pneumonia. Never knew one could have pneumonia without a cough..... The fevers have come down. Tylenol seems to do the trick. The doctors' concerns that I have metastasis to the brain (causing seizure) were disproven by an MRI of the brain. And now, thank goodness, with a negative seizure study, it was either a "one and done" or something called a syncopal convulsion, which looks like a seizure.

I'm still in the hospital and thank goodness I no longer look like a teletubby. Seizure precautions were just officially lifted. Now what? I don't know. But that's on tomorrow's agenda.