My Story!
On August 26th 2001 while laying on the couch looking at the late summer cloud roll on by so eloquently, I began to experience a very strange sensation in my brain. It did not feel like the onset of a normal headache, but I knew in my gut that something very serious was going to be happening.
As I sat there for a moment waiting for it to pass, I wondered to myself what's going on here. This is something I have never felt before. I had never been a person to suffer from migraine headache before so that notion was quickly dismissed in my mind. NO, this was something much more sinister and different and something I knew right then and there was going to change my life forever.
It was an early Sunday morning and it was about time to get ready for Sunday Services. At that time I could not seem to focus on anything. I sat there and pushed my face into the couch as the growing and intensifying pressure began to build so very slowly and rapidly ! Then in the blink of an eye "Thunder Clap" had set in and it felt like my head had just exploded. I felt as if I had just gulped down 15 7-11 Slurries and had the larges Brain Freeze one could ever imagine. But this was something different I knew in my gut. It felt 100,000 times worse !
At that time I found it very difficult to get off the couch. I was holding my head in my hands and I could barely see a thing around me. At that time I did not know what the cause was. The bleed took place in my partiel lobe right next to my visual cortex, hence instantly damaging my vision.
I screamed out for Sherliyn my girl friend at the time who was just dressed in panty hose and a bra. "Sherilyn, we have to go to the hospital now" I spat out as fast as I could. "There is no time to waste, I am going to the car, we don't have very much time left".
At that instant I knew for a fact that I was dying right then and there. If we did not get to the hospital ASAP, my life is over. I am 100% sure of this. She had asked to call an Ambulance, I replied "No, by then it will be too late". This situation became very grave.
I had Jonathan her son walk me out to the car. My vision was blurred and I had a hard time walking. I made it to the back seat where I lay there in excruciating pain in my head. To help ease the pain I removed my shirt and covered it around my head in hopes that it would somehow easy the pain. The strange things one will do when in dire need of attention.......To beContinued (A Work in Progress)