Sometimes the days when I’m confident that I’ve recovered become the scariest. Because those are the days when a sudden and stabbing headache hits and I don’t know why. So of course, the panic sets in and I continually check myself for signs of stroke…I check my eyes and my limbs and even my speech. I feel the same types of pain I was feeling the day I left the hospital - the day the medical staff told me to call 911 if I experience stroke symptoms:
pressure in my head, quickly fleeting headaches that come on so suddenly and subside just as suddenly, neck pain…
I am in a private support group on Facebook. Sometimes it is my saving grace to read and understand the experiences of others who have suffered the same, rare injury. It seems that we are all slightly different, but we have a few things in common: lingering aches, pains, fatigue, and pretty extreme anxiety. Some of these people are a dozen years out from their injury. Or more! Most of them say it gets much, much better but that we are all forever changed.
Now. I have a day to tackle.
Always,
GS
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