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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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This is tough.....
Im 6 mnth PC. I have been working, being a mother, having people over for dinner, suffered a stomach flu followed by a long nasty cold, but am trying to stay normal.
Surprise, surprise! I wake up this morning feeling like the world is spinning, every head movement causes pain and feeling sick. I can't walk in a straight line. I'm crying because the reality of how severe my injury was comes back to haunt me again.
Trouble is until I have an MRI with dye imaging, no physio will touch me. The NHS are great but hurry nothing unless you are dying.
The thought of making the phonecalls is so daunting.
I know the answers, I know what triggered this attack, but it's the only place here where I don't feel alone. Therefore you are being subjected to my pity story. Just being reminded again that I cannot make life plans because life is not consistent, is so upsetting.
Any encouragement is welcome.
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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