Hello all,
So allow me to backtrack to May 8th. That morning I felt like I had a little sinus pressure, and I didn't want it to lead to a sinus headache. I used my nose spray, Flonase, and went about my morning.
Later that morning, we were downtown at a local park with a splash pad. The local Fire Department was having its annual fundraiser with various vendors downtown to help raise money. I felt fine, other than it felt like we were on the surface of the sun. I do live in Texas, after all. We decided to leave around 12:30 and since we were all hungry we ordered a pizza to take home.
Out of nowhere, my head started to hurt like it's never hurt before. It literally felt as if someone had taken my head and bashed it up against a brick wall. I've had awful headaches in the past, but this was different. I thought my brain was expanding, and my head was going to explode. I do have a low pain tolerance, but it still takes quite a bit of pain to make me cry. This headache made me cry. Anytime the centrifugal force was switched from center to either the left or the right, it made it worse. If we went over a bump that was the absolute worst.
We got home and I ate some pizza before taking a couple of Excedrin for what was obviously a migraine. It was the migraine from hell. I had always assumed my bad headaches were migraines (I would have sensitivity to light and sound) but this was different. Nothing I took was taking it away. Excedrin, Aspirin, Tylenol...nothing. It brought my pain level from a 10 to about 5 or a 6, but it was always lingering around.
The next morning (which happened to be Mother's Day) my migraine was still there. We had planned to have my parents over for some outdoor fun in our new gazebo that Aaron put together pretty much by himself (I helped hold some things in place but he did 95% of the work). Aaron called my mom to see if she would stay with the girls so he could take me to an Urgent Care/ER to get some relief until I could call my doctor. Lucky for us, when we got there no one was in the waiting room and we were able to get back within a few minutes after I turned in all of my paperwork. I had the lights turned off and only had light from the windows coming through when the nurse came in to ask me a plethora of questions. I tell him what happened, and he relays it to the doctor on duty.
He comes in about 15 minutes later and says "We are going to get you a CT scan, just to make sure everything looks good." That whole process took about 5 minutes. I was also given a shot of Ketorolac for pain/inflammation (brand name is Toradol), Promethazine for nausea (name brand Phenergan), and 2 tablets of Hydrocodone/APAP 5/325 for pain (name brand Norco). After the cocktail made a little loopy we were waiting for the CT results (which needed to be read by a radiologist at the main campus location of the hospital). The doctor came back in and told me my CT was clean and was even identical to the CT I had done in 2015. He asked what happened so I told him:
The short version of that was I passed out and fell at work (at the hospital) smashing my head into the concrete floor. Lucky for me, a guy from the Heart Institute was up there for some reason (not sure why, Heart Institute was on the 1st Floor and I was up on Same Day Surgery/Outpatient on the 4th Floor) and he scooped me up and got me a bed and rolled me down to the ER. My CT was normal then too...but no further imaging was requested at the time.
They discharge me and tell me to take it easy but if the pain is still there then I may need additional imaging. Monday rolls around, and I still have a headache. I call a neurologist in town and they're next appointment for a new patient was 2 months away. Obviously, I wasn't going to wait that long. I call the Urgernt Care on Tuesday and tell them that my headache was still there, and nothing was taking it away -- minimizing the pain, sure, but not taking it away. I ask if the doctor who saw me (the same one who told me I would need additional imaging) would write me an order to get an MRI with and without contrast. They go to ask him and he said no. They told me there is an Imaging Center in town that doesn't require orders, and they were walk ins. I thought "Great! Sounds perfect! I will go today!"
I call them, and they tell me I do need orders but that it doesn't have to be from a neurologist, it can be from a primary care doctor. After talking to the lady there on the phone about pricing and scheduling, I told her she was awesome and we ended the conversation. She basically let me vent my frustration too which was nice.
I call my primary doctor who hadn't seen in over three years and thinking it would be another week to get in with him because of that, I was surprised when the receptionist told me they could get me in the next day. I go in on that Thursday and he gives me some samples of a drug called Ubrelvy. Best. Stuff. Ever. It took 2 or 3 doses of it to fully make my migraine go away. He wrote me a script for Ubrelvy and Ibuprofen as well as set up an MRI for me at the hospital -- which I ended up having the following Wednesday -- and referred me to a neurologist for further consultation.
His main concern was the CT showed that it looked like I had "low lying tonsils" and he wanted to rule out chiari malformation primarily but other things as well. My MRI came back normal but showed that I had "moderate to severe sphenoid sinus disease". I thought this was fancy talk for "allergies", but nay nay...apparently if it goes untreated it can turn into meningitis. He called the neurologist he is referring me to (because it is still about a month before I see him) and gave him the test results and he said to "aggressively treat the sinusitis," and if it doesn't go away, I might have to have a spinal tap to rule out meningitis...
Basically, it's been one thing after another for the last month and a half. I haven't had any real desire to film any more videos for a while -- other than my
life update because that was easier than writing all of this down, but I still wanted to write all of this down.
I'm still planning on going back to school in the Fall, and I'm still going back and forth on what I want to do as far as "what direction I want to take". I was thinking Healthcare Information Management (which would require me to basically start all over), or English, or possibly even Criminology. I'm also planning on starting a pre-school curriculum for our oldest, and since we are planning on homeschooling our kids, it would be a good time for her to start getting into a routine of structured learning. She'll be 3 over the summer, and I feel that it's a good age to start her "schooling".
Anyway, reaction videos might take a while for me to get back to filming. I am hoping over the summer I can really batch film videos and throw in some other kind of content here and there, so when Fall rolls around I at least have my Gabriel and Morissette videos out for a couple of months -- that's the goal anyway.
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