Got a really bad headache on Wednesdy morning about an hour after I got up. Went to work anyway...not talking on the way in since I ride by myself, and went straight to my office to do paperwork.
Still really hadn't said anything by this point. Went to my first meeting at 8:30 and discovered I was stuttering so bad, I literally couldn't talk. Well, then off to the ER, thinking I'm having a stroke. Had CT, MRI, angiogram, echo, ultrasound, blood tests, everything. Found I had previous brain and stroke injury. I knew about the head injuries from some serious accidents but didn't know about any strokes. Evidently this round was very very low on the "stroke scale".
Fortunately, I have no paralysis but my ability to talk is very compromised. Some people I know, won't be bothered at all by this new development!
Hope it gets better because it will make my job much more difficult plus I feel really weird when I try to talk and nothing hardly comes out right. (of course, I've always been used to a certain % to not come out right
)
I'll have to do speech therapy starting next week sometime so I am optimistic about that.
If it had been a more severe or acute episode, my waiting as long as I did probably would have caused things to turn out much more poorly.
Word to the wise fellas.....if you ever have a bad, bad headache and gobbeldy gook for language, call 911. (this is of course if the headache and nonsense from the mouth is not caused by alcohol!)
Still really hadn't said anything by this point. Went to my first meeting at 8:30 and discovered I was stuttering so bad, I literally couldn't talk. Well, then off to the ER, thinking I'm having a stroke. Had CT, MRI, angiogram, echo, ultrasound, blood tests, everything. Found I had previous brain and stroke injury. I knew about the head injuries from some serious accidents but didn't know about any strokes. Evidently this round was very very low on the "stroke scale".
Fortunately, I have no paralysis but my ability to talk is very compromised. Some people I know, won't be bothered at all by this new development!
Hope it gets better because it will make my job much more difficult plus I feel really weird when I try to talk and nothing hardly comes out right. (of course, I've always been used to a certain % to not come out right
)I'll have to do speech therapy starting next week sometime so I am optimistic about that.
If it had been a more severe or acute episode, my waiting as long as I did probably would have caused things to turn out much more poorly.
Word to the wise fellas.....if you ever have a bad, bad headache and gobbeldy gook for language, call 911. (this is of course if the headache and nonsense from the mouth is not caused by alcohol!)
