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Here's the short version. While in Michigan in early January I fell and cracked the back of my head on the ice. Fast forward...
A week ago Saturday I played some golf in Colorado- 60 degrees and lovely. By Wednesday I went to play pickleball (kind of like tennis only played indoors on gym courts) and kept kind of being uncoordinated and hitting the ball into the net.
Thursday I woke up unable to stand and balance really- holding onto things to get around. I went to a chiropractor who assured me after a 90-second diagnosis that I needed an adjustment to my C5 and C6 vertebrae, and that I had a Vitamin B deficiency. He sold me some expensive vitamins, sent me home and scheduled a follow-up appointment for this past Tueday.
Friday morning I woke up even worse- and went to the ER. Docs did a 60-minute evaluation and said I had either suffered a stroke, or was becoming symptomatic as a result of a brain tumor!
After several CT scans, however- they concluded that when I fell on the ice a month earlier I had suffered a double hematoma which was putting pressure on my brain and I was likely to suffer a permanent stroke or brain damage without immediate surgery. THANK GOD I didn't listen to the chiropractor or I might not be alive!!
Had the surgery Saturday morning. (They drilled four large, thumb-sized holes in my skull to relieve the pressure.) Immediately my symptoms went away although I had/have one heck of a headache. I went home from the hospital Monday afternoon and am at home on a 2-week recovery regimen. Neurologist says I SHOULD be back to new in another 10 days or so. We'll see.
SO... that's my story. Crazy!
Steve
A week ago Saturday I played some golf in Colorado- 60 degrees and lovely. By Wednesday I went to play pickleball (kind of like tennis only played indoors on gym courts) and kept kind of being uncoordinated and hitting the ball into the net.
Thursday I woke up unable to stand and balance really- holding onto things to get around. I went to a chiropractor who assured me after a 90-second diagnosis that I needed an adjustment to my C5 and C6 vertebrae, and that I had a Vitamin B deficiency. He sold me some expensive vitamins, sent me home and scheduled a follow-up appointment for this past Tueday.
Friday morning I woke up even worse- and went to the ER. Docs did a 60-minute evaluation and said I had either suffered a stroke, or was becoming symptomatic as a result of a brain tumor!
After several CT scans, however- they concluded that when I fell on the ice a month earlier I had suffered a double hematoma which was putting pressure on my brain and I was likely to suffer a permanent stroke or brain damage without immediate surgery. THANK GOD I didn't listen to the chiropractor or I might not be alive!!
Had the surgery Saturday morning. (They drilled four large, thumb-sized holes in my skull to relieve the pressure.) Immediately my symptoms went away although I had/have one heck of a headache. I went home from the hospital Monday afternoon and am at home on a 2-week recovery regimen. Neurologist says I SHOULD be back to new in another 10 days or so. We'll see.
SO... that's my story. Crazy!
Steve