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At 5:00am a nurse came in and gave me liquid potassium in apple juice.\u00a0 <\/span>At 7:00am I woke up to a nurse, taking my vitals.\u00a0 <\/span>I also had some blood work done.\u00a0 <\/span>Everything was normal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 8:30am I had another episode just before my husband arrived.\u00a0 <\/span>Shortly after he arrived our nurse informed us that the MRI department scheduled us in a 2:00pm but there was confusion. As an outpatient a scan of the brain was requested, but as an inpatient a scan of the spine was requested.\u00a0 <\/span>They would not combine the two requests. Our nurse spent the morning trying to contact a doctor so both scans could be done at the same time.\u00a0 <\/span>It took her quite a while but she finally got a hold of a hospitalist who authorized the request.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just before 1:00pm I got up to go to the bathroom. When I got back I felt really tired and had an episode. I tried to stay awake and became dizzy trying to open my eyes. I eventually just let myself relax. About 10 minutes later I started to come out of it. A minute later I could move my hands and I whispered “I’m scared”. I had tears in my eyes. It took 30 minutes before I could move my legs and arms but I was physically exhausted. My fingers could move but they were weak.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went for the MRI at 2:00pm.\u00a0 <\/span>There was a 97 year old lady who had been waiting for 3 years to get her MRI to investigate an ear problem. After waiting 30 minutes I was brought into a second room with an MRI and it took approximately 45 minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>I only moved once when I fell asleep but I didn’t have any episodes. They were able to get all the images they needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I did have a small episode around 5:00, which lasted about 5 minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>Then at 6:30 I had one that lasted only 2 minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>At 9:30pm I had one last episode that lasted 20 minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>When I came out of it my husband came into the bed with me and did not leave my side all night.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 5:00am a nurse came in and gave me liquid potassium in apple juice.\u00a0 At 7:00am I woke up to a nurse, taking my vitals.\u00a0 I also had some blood work done.\u00a0 Everything was normal. Around 8:30am I had another episode just before my husband arrived.\u00a0 Shortly after he arrived our nurse informed us that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-hospital","tag-moderate"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}