| PamelaJune |
03-09-2014 12:23 AM |
My big seizure
In the days that lead up to my grand mal in 2012 I was in hospital for 4 days and nights. While in there I was talking to people who no one else could see, this was happening while I was both asleep and while I was awake. At one stage I knew was talking to someone who couldn't possibly be there but he was and I was talking to him and asking questions. I was also seeing a cat and told my mother even though I knew a cat was not there in the toilet with me, it was still sitting there at my feet. I could also smell dog faecal matter, really really strong and bad faecal matter so strong it was like it was in the bed with me. The hallucinations were so very vivid also, my mum sat with me on the Saturday afternoon the day after I was admitted and she knew I was in a bad way. They got a neurologist to see me on the Monday at 6pm and he did all these tests and said all was ok, the hallucinations had stopped by Monday afternoon and the dog smell had abated. At 7.30 I had a grand mal, I remember nothing of that night between 7.30 and 10.30. A good thing I'm told as I sustained 3 thoracic fractures, 1 sacral fracture and 2 fractured ribs. Oh and I bit through my tongue completely, it took days and days to heal and was so very painful, gosh, I recall it being more painful than my ribs lol... Imagine that. They discharged me from hospital with all those fractures, the nursing staff didn't believe me when I told them I was in so much pain and didn't pass on the information to my doctor so it wasn't until a month later we learned about the fractures. They also told my husband I had suffered a panic attack on the Monday night and it was nothing to worry about. Needless to say, I have refused to be a patient at that hospital since.
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