Another tribulation

 Now nearly a fortnight has passed I feel ready to talk about what happened to me. It all started with a numb tingling in my left arm and my lips. Worrying, but not anything major I thought. So I visited my doctor 2 days later who examined me and took my blood pressure ect. He thought it was unlikely to be a stroke, but sent me to hospital as a precaution. This all began at 9am and after tests all day it got to 5pm. My last scan was a MRI but up to now nothing had been found to my relief and I was really ready to to put it all down to a false alarm when I was suddenly visited by a very serious looking doctor telling me I must spend the night under observations 2 very small strokes had been detected.

It really felt like a bad dream. I was all happy to go home. Anyway after an unsettling night on a stroke ward with some very ill people who could walk or talk properly, I was discharged with some blood thinning pills and statins. I have a heart scan coming up for rare problems and also a scan on my neck arteries.

Im feeling great on the pills so something must have been restricting me. I find that I have kept my head through out this crisis. Ive learnt how to having spent that awful time when my ears and nerves were wrong so Im not really a stranger to " every things gone to shit " situations. Ive learnt how to deal with stress and what to do such as on activities that help me switch off. I mean life has to go on and as I have my health still and the medication seems to be working im not totally morbid, but obviously this situation is far from good. 

I just cant believe that its happened and the doctors were surprised too. So im eating healthier and cutting right back on junk food which is a weakness of mine. My cholesterol readings werent over high really though, but  carrying less weight will take the strain off my body. My blood pressure is fine too.

Its a warm dry spring here, but once again I have a problem on my mind as I did with my last tribulation in spring. If I hadnt got to the doctors before Easter it might have been another story altogether. So onwards I go feeling my way along this new one and hoping for the best, again. 

I couldnt have coped with this news a few years ago.