hospital trip
long story short: i’m fine
long story long: woke up today and my right leg was still asleep. didn’t think much about it and went to work
got home, tried using the phone, fingers started spazzing around a bit and i noticed that now both right leg and right arm were numb and tingling. went “uh…”, tried to walk it off, leg got worse, so per shannon’s offer went up to hospital to make sure it wasn’t something bad in the brain
once there they said that it’s probably nothing serious since i’m not in any danger group and don’t have a other symptoms, but they’ll do tests to make sure. got tested for stroke and transient ischemic attack (ministroke), negative on both, and it basically looks like by coincidence i managed to somehow impede blood flow to leg (which btw is still annoyingly numb) on the same day that my RSI acted up and my hand on the same side went numb.
eh, better safe than sorry i guess. the cat scan machine is neat.
Nando 10:18 am on October 14, 2009 Permalink
well, that’s a scary interlude. . . I particularly love the: “well we don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t look like a stroke — teeheee!”
.e 1:01 pm on October 14, 2009 Permalink
well, stroke/ministroke is really the only bad case. otherwise it’s just “you impeded bloodflow to your leg. let us know if it doesn’t just fix itself in a week or so”