Dizzy and frightened this morning.
Dec. 10th, 2008 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI had one of those frightening scares this morning that make me worry too much about my health. I'm sure that on some level I'm quite healthy for a man my age, not spectacularly so but still. The alarm went off and I tried to stand up-- and immediately fell down. I caught myself on the edge of the bed, straightened up, and took two steps-- and found that I couldn't walk. I was too dizzy. My body wanted to pull to the right. My right leg was askew, the toes turned out in a way that's not normal for me.
It felt as if half my body were taking longer to wake up than the other half, and I've never had that happen before. I felt fine until I tried to move and then my body defied me. I am not happy about that. Just another reminder of the thousands of different things that can go wrong with the brain and body.
It took nearly five minutes for whatever it was to pass. I managed to get Yamaraashi-chan up and moving, and by the time I'd gotten dressed I was able to walk confidently. Hell, I had to make a quick run to the grocer as we were out of milk-- 11 minutes, not my best time, but tolerable.
Anyway, I made it out to the bus on time, and am all right now. It took a while for the fingers to wake up for typing, too, so maybe it was just a fluke of some kind.
[Edit: My doc agrees, and will see me tomorrow morning. She said if it happens again I should get myself to an ER immediately.]
It felt as if half my body were taking longer to wake up than the other half, and I've never had that happen before. I felt fine until I tried to move and then my body defied me. I am not happy about that. Just another reminder of the thousands of different things that can go wrong with the brain and body.
It took nearly five minutes for whatever it was to pass. I managed to get Yamaraashi-chan up and moving, and by the time I'd gotten dressed I was able to walk confidently. Hell, I had to make a quick run to the grocer as we were out of milk-- 11 minutes, not my best time, but tolerable.
Anyway, I made it out to the bus on time, and am all right now. It took a while for the fingers to wake up for typing, too, so maybe it was just a fluke of some kind.
[Edit: My doc agrees, and will see me tomorrow morning. She said if it happens again I should get myself to an ER immediately.]
