still at the hospital.

After the scan we went back to the emergency department to wait for the results. me still feeling like i had been whacked in the head by a cricket bat. The scan results came back. no bleed could be seen in the brain! so what was causing me all this pain? a brain tumour, or just a severe migraine? The time is now 4.00am. They would do a lumber puncture later that day to see if there was any blood showing up in the spinal fluid, which indicates a bleed on the brain. I was taken to a ward to await the lumber puncture. All the time i was so scared, and so alone. i had a headache which felt like a build up of pressure in my head. I felt constantly nauseous hated the lights and noise of the busy ward. Oblivious to what was about to happen that would change my life forever.

At the Hospital.

Arrived at the Hospital and managed to walk to the accident and emergency reception desk. Every step i walk my head is feels like its going to explode, my neck is so stiff i cannot rotate my head into any position, I am wretching continuously. I can remember giving my name to the receptionist and then collapsing. I am semi conscious as Andy puts me into a hospital wheelchair and takes me through to the cubicles. All the time i am shouting for people to do something about the pain in my head , my pain score is 10/10. I am still feeling very very nauseous and actually vomiting at times. I am given some morphine for the pain and some anti sickness. Andy tells me that the morphine had an strange effect on me! I was trying to climb off the trolley over the bars and my respiratory rate dipped as well. I have no recollection of this moment i am now drifting in and out of consciousness. I wake up in a C.T scanner ready for my head to be scanned, the room has bright lights with lots of people talking around me.

like a gun going off in my head.

Welcome to my blog. on july 28th 2010 my whole life was turned upside down.
just as i was going to bed i had a pain shoot through my head, i can only liken it to being shot in the head, not that i ever have been, but assume thats what its like.I vomitted and was wondering along with my partner if it was a migraine. I have never suffered from headaches before so knew this one was unusual for me. As a registered nurse i knew after sitting at home for an hour with a headache that was getting worse and constant vomitting hospital was the place to be. My partner helped me get dressed as i was barely able to. We set off to the local A&E at 12.30 am in the car. Thankfully it only took us 15 minutes to get there.