Adventures with TIA

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I had a little fun this weekend… so much fun that I don’t remember most of Sunday (just like college).

Here is what I remember… “this mix is more of a paste than a marinade.”

Yup… that is it. I don’t remember going to the grocery, buying the ingredients, following the recipe my wife picked out, grilling the food or eating it. but I for some reason remember that the spices weren’t what I expected. There were probably a few other things that happened but food is the most important (and I’ve been told it was a lazy day and I napped a lot of it). I think it is kind of funny the one little thing I do remember.

The next thing I remember I am furious at my son and trying to figure out what he is doing to me. He had me at the ER, and I had experienced a TIA or Mini Stroke. My right side movement and hearing had gone (they came back).

I would tell you more but unless you want to hear about 6 hours in the ER I really can’t give you more details.

Good news is there is no permanent damage and I’ve got a ton of scans and doctor visits scheduled now so I’m under good care. Bad news is I’m now a high risk for a regular stroke. Maybe I can use this as an excuse for my poor spelling.

Yes, I did later apologize to my son (and thanked him).

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Glad you are OK Spud. Must have been a scary thing. I hope they figure out what to do before anything worse happens. And you now owe your son big time.

And never mind about the six hours in the ER.

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My mother in law had a severe one of those - maybe ten years ago. She’s still with us.

Stay on whatever blood thinners the neurologist is recommending.

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I can condense it… horrible cable reception but really nice warm blankets.

Right now it is just Baby Aspirin… but I insisted my nurse call it “big boy” aspirin before I would take it.

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Been there, done that, got a T-shirt from 1300 miles away.

Nothing like keeling over while half the country away from home, on a business trip.

Wound up on adult aspirin and Plavix. If offered a choice, Plavix is the way to go, nice and stable, unlike Coumadin.

They never said what caused the 3 TIA’s that showed on the MRI, just dropped a stent into the Circle of Willis, and called it done.

Biggest PITA was learning to walk again. Now I know why 2 year olds are so pissed.

Came out of the whole thing with Ataxia and Neuropathy. And two fist-fulls of meds a day. I figure I have expensive pee now.

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My doc says I’ve had a couple of them. They were very mild, I didn’t even seek attention, I just told the doc about them later, he said that’s what they were.

He told me to take 81 mg aspirin, I figure there is nothing magic about the number 81, so I break real ones up into quarters, close enough and a lot cheaper. That was 20 years ago, and I’ve had no recurrences.

They were not associated with another event, which (when I described it later and he saw my wavy printout) my doc says was a mild heart attack. He ran the tests and gave me a stent and told me to go home.