I got home from the hospital on Sunday afternoon.  I just read the post I wrote while in the hospital.  I’m so sorry, I had no idea that it was like that.  I would have let you know I’m alive before now!  You should have seen the status I put on Facebook!  It completely blows my mind that at the time I read these things after I wrote them and thought they said what I meant to write.  Yep…*Swoosh* MIND BLOWN!!

Here’s what has happened….I’ll refresh your memory from the last post, as if you could understand it.

I’ve been having these little muscle twitchy things.  Sometimes just minor, sometimes more pronounced, it always happened on the right side and it coincided with long days of vertigo, or migraines.  When I was exhausted, stressed…ect.  On Wednesday it happened without these being present.  It happened 3 times at home each time getting worse.  We decided to go to the ER.  As soon as I walked ….wobbled…in to the ER, it happened again.  The first thing they did was have me pee in a cup (check my electrolytes), and then a CT scan. The CT technician was great.  When it was over he stepped in the office to do the paperwork and it started, I remember thinking, “Where is he”…and then I screamed when the elevator hit the bottom floor and I was in motion…and scared, really scared, and crying…I didn’t know why I was but I couldn’t help it.  The CT tech was leaning over me, telling me I was OK, that I was in the hospital, we were going back to the ER, and he just kept saying that.  That was the first of many for days….some better, some worse.

At first they put me in a normal room, it was just to be for a little bit, until they could get me on the 5th floor, it has cameras, they wanted to observe me all the time….seizure watch.  But there was no room on the 5th floor, so I was put in ICU.  I could not be left alone….or far from help.  Stuart was there, but he had to go home to take care of our pets, and gosh he does have to sleep.  Luckily, my sister came soon and helped, thank goodness.

While I was in the ICU I had a 24 hour EEG, actually it only lasted about 15 hours because I had more than 6 seizures during that time so they didn’t need the whole time.  It came back clear.  I was sent to a regular room.

The doctor came in and told me that I am having non epileptic seizures.  He said they had a theory…  At that moment, I had a seizure.  He told my husband that, no, what he was thinking would not cause anything like that.  He was thinking something much less violent.  There are theories, but I don’t even know right now.  I will be seeing  my neurologist today.  I see my PCP next week.  We’ll see.

Since I’ve been home the seizures have calmed down.  They aren’t as intense.  I don’t know if it will stay that way.

Strange thing, while I’ve been having the intense seizures I did not have vertigo.  I would have small little swirls, that lasted just seconds, but that’s all.  Yesterday when I had severe rotational vertigo for hours.  I didn’t have a seizure until it was over for a while.

But I was in the hospital from Wednesday night to Sunday afternoon without having any real vertigo?  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want seizures instead.  I just think it’s weird.  Now that I’ve said that, oh lordy please don’t let me have both at the same time!

I think I’ve told you all I know for now.

So far…another mystery in this crazy world of mine.

I’ll talk more about this soon….but….I’m having a Pity Party, and I’m not ashamed to say it!

I hope this makes a bit more sense….I’m really too tired to proof read it, not like it did much good the last time.  🙂