Wednesday, September 23, 2009

What went down last week...
It all started on Tuesday morning, finished up on Saturday around 1:00 PM.

and I was back at work on Monday.

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Yea... I got ambushed big time.

Around 8:25 AM on Tuesday

On Tuesday morning I was going through my Emails and had just gotten one ready to go out when my vision became blurry.
Instantaneously.

No other symptoms... No headache, no other pains, no dizziness, no nothing... Just blurry vision
that settled quickly to effect the Upper Left area of my vision field, both right eye and left eye.

I though it was,
A. Greasy Glasses ?? ... so I cleaned them, but the blur remained.

B. Detached Retina ?? ... but when I leaned my head back, the blur remained...
[ Yea... even then I knew I would need about a 5 G turn to pop it back in place, but figured I might get lucky.]

C. Then I did some more troubleshooting: Left Eye Closed... Still Blurry,
Right Eye Closed... Still Blurry,
Poop... that means it's not the Eyes... but the Optical Processing Unit... aka in the Brain.


So I estimated where the "Send" button was and got the email off, then did a
CTRL-ALT-DEL, and I could see on the extreme right, so I found the drop down menu and choose
blah-blah-blah-n [ as in shutdown ] that ends in an "N" on that menu, and hit enter.
It shut down.

I then locked up my desk, grabbed my keys, and went down two cubes to Pat Ellis' cube.

"Hi Pat. You busy right now?"

"Naw... what's up?"

"My vision is messed up, can you take me to the ER at Paoli Hospital?"

"Sure"

So we wandered out to the parking lot, transferred the soda's and paper plates for our DBA picnic to his car,
and he drove me to Paoli in his car, and dropped me off at the ER.

Two Cat scans, 5 days, One MRI and various DR's and Pills and pokes and prodding and being stuck with needles and Stuff later...
I was finally able to leave the hospital on Saturday afternoon.

It was a small leak in the lower right area of the brain that does optical processing,
so , since the eyes are upside down and backwards, it was the Upper Left area of my vision that was out of commission.

Around 2:00 or 3:00 PM my vision came back on Tuesday, so it was only out for about 6 hours,
but they kept me through Saturday for tests, Blood Pressure adjustments, and Cat Scan's,
an MRI, and lot's of blood tests... with REAL Blood !

I finally got released Today ( Saturday ) around 1:00 PM and will be back in on Monday for work.

I can't drive for a week, just a precaution, so we'll miss a friends wedding up in Jersey cause the 2+ hours of driving up there,
and then when we're tired, after the wedding, Nancy would have to drive back again by herself, with me as a passenger..

I really, really wanted to go to the wedding, but.... Stuff Happens.
- Forest Gump.