Glad you’re home. I also doubt TIA because the symptoms were so long-lived and presented over time as you described. My advice would have been to get out of the hospital because the protocols tend to be over, over cautious and the more time you spend with a central line, traveling for tests, etc. the more chances for some infection.
Hope younfeel better!!!
@scout59 what you describe happened exactly to my D a year ago, except that she was also confused and had some trouble articulating. The MD diagnosed “vascular migraine” (and told her she should have called 911).
@snowdog - When my episode occurred, my husband claimed I was also a little “slow” and inarticulate. (He said I acted the way I do when my blood sugar goes too low.) The more I think about it, the more it does sound like a migraine - it’s just weird that I’ve never really had them before.
My doctor told me it was good that I went to the ER, even though they didn’t find anything. It WAS kind of annoying to be kept there so long, but on the plus side, I received lots of compliments on my health!
My dad, a doctor, was once slurring his words and I almost called the police - this was in the 1960’s - but he told me had a migraine. It was.
I’ve had facial numbness and weakness related to nerve inflammation. It’s not a big deal. But mentioning that makes the doctors at the hospital worry about a stroke and so …
@scout59, love the avatar of Scout. Almost as good as the Ham costume.
There’s an interesting piece by Will Wilkinson in the Democracy in America blog at The Economist. His argument is the US isn’t actually more litigious or more prone to huge awards but that the US reacts to the risk much more than European countries. I think that’s because we lack a cultural context which restrains and directs bureaucracy to specific purposes like the preservation of a way of life, protection from competition, etc. I think our response to risk is more “free market”, meaning we let the rules expand to fill the space and that space happens to be limitless. Note: I used the words “free market” because Wilkinson - who posts as WW (because the magazine doesn’t name writers) - is a wear his Libertarianism on his sleeve guy who worships the free market and here he’s essentially arguing for less of a free market in our corporate and institutional obsessions with process defining.