{"id":8,"date":"2015-05-01T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:28:44","slug":"day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/blog\/day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trip to the Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next morning my foot was still tingly but I could put some weight on my leg.\u00a0 <\/span>After the kids went to school a friend came to the door and I went downstairs to answer it. As I was telling her what happened I could feel my foot getting a bit heavy and I couldn\u2019t move my toes any more. I had to use my arms to get up the stairs and knew it was getting worse.\u00a0 <\/span>My husband drove me to the Chiropractor. He had to help me into the office but the Chiropractor\u00a0 <\/span>worked his magic again and I was able to limp when he was finished.\u00a0 <\/span>However, he was very concerned and told us to go straight to the hospital to get a second opinion.\u00a0 <\/span>He stressed that we needed to demand that tests be done because what I was experiencing was not normal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not expecting much, my husband took me straight to Royal Columbian Hospital.\u00a0 <\/span>There was a long wait and we knew it would take hours. We contemplated leaving because my leg seemed fine and I didn\u2019t think they would even get to me since there appeared to be nothing wrong.\u00a0 <\/span>Despite our skepticism, we stayed.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few hours later I was unable to move my leg or wiggle my toes.\u00a0 <\/span>After about 4 hours we saw a hospitalist who did several reflex tests and said this was \u201cboth confusing and concerning<\/i>\u201d. He immediately referred me to a neurologist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After another 2 hours in Emergency, the neurologist came and did every reflex test he could think of.\u00a0 <\/span>It was very interesting because my leg did everything it was supposed to on its own but I had no control over it.\u00a0 <\/span>I couldn’t move my toes, but I could feel them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The neurologist was concerned about my safety without the use of my leg and asked me to stay in the hospital.\u00a0 <\/span>We had a big weekend ahead and I just wanted to go home.\u00a0 <\/span>I promised I would do nothing at home and that my husband would take care of me so he discharged me and put in a request for an MRI.\u00a0 <\/span>He said to expect a call over the next few days to schedule an appointment so he could rule out anything serious such as Multiple Sclerosis.<\/span><\/p>\n

I returned home and continued taking Tylenol.\u00a0 <\/span>We hosted a surprise birthday party on Saturday for my husband\u2019s Aunty and a work BBQ on Sunday so I had lots of distractions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Saturday morning around 4am I woke up and was able to move my foot again.\u00a0 <\/span>It was still tingly but otherwise normal like before.\u00a0 <\/span>Throughout the day I had mobility but it seemed to get worse as the day went on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That night I was rubbing my left foot and all of a sudden there was a bit of a crack and then the tingling just stopped. Almost instantly my foot had full motion.\u00a0 <\/span>It was the craziest thing.\u00a0 <\/span>I figured I cured myself! <\/span><\/p>\n

Everything returned back to normal and Sunday was a great day.\u00a0 <\/span>I also remembered not to eat and drove myself to the lab to get a ton of blood work done on Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next morning my foot was still tingly but I could put some weight on my leg.\u00a0 After the kids went to school a friend came to the door and I went downstairs to answer it. As I was telling her what happened I could feel my foot getting a bit heavy and I couldn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"

The next morning my foot was still tingly but I could put some weight on my leg.\u00a0 <\/span>After the kids went to school a friend came to the door and I went downstairs to answer it. As I was telling her what happened I could feel my foot getting a bit heavy and I couldn\u2019t move my toes any more. I had to use my arms to get up the stairs and knew it was getting worse.\u00a0 <\/span>My husband drove me to the Chiropractor. He had to help me into the office but the Chiropractor\u00a0 <\/span>worked his magic again and I was able to limp when he was finished.\u00a0 <\/span>However, he was very concerned and told us to go straight to the hospital to get a second opinion.\u00a0 <\/span>He stressed that we needed to demand that tests be done because what I was experiencing was not normal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not expecting much, my husband took me straight to Royal Columbian Hospital.\u00a0 <\/span>There was a long wait and we knew it would take hours. We contemplated leaving because my leg seemed fine and I didn\u2019t think they would even get to me since there appeared to be nothing wrong.\u00a0 <\/span>Despite our skepticism, we stayed.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few hours later I was unable to move my leg or wiggle my toes.\u00a0 <\/span>After about 4 hours we saw a hospitalist who did several reflex tests and said this was \u201cboth confusing and concerning<\/i>\u201d. He immediately referred me to a neurologist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After another 2 hours in Emergency, the neurologist came and did every reflex test he could think of.\u00a0 <\/span>It was very interesting because my leg did everything it was supposed to on its own but I had no control over it.\u00a0 <\/span>I couldn't move my toes, but I could feel them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The neurologist was concerned about my safety without the use of my leg and asked me to stay in the hospital.\u00a0 <\/span>We had a big weekend ahead and I just wanted to go home.\u00a0 <\/span>I promised I would do nothing at home and that my husband would take care of me so he discharged me and put in a request for an MRI.\u00a0 <\/span>He said to expect a call over the next few days to schedule an appointment so he could rule out anything serious such as Multiple Sclerosis.<\/span><\/p>\n

I returned home and continued taking Tylenol.\u00a0 <\/span>We hosted a surprise birthday party on Saturday for my husband\u2019s Aunty and a work BBQ on Sunday so I had lots of distractions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Saturday morning around 4am I woke up and was able to move my foot again.\u00a0 <\/span>It was still tingly but otherwise normal like before.\u00a0 <\/span>Throughout the day I had mobility but it seemed to get worse as the day went on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That night I was rubbing my left foot and all of a sudden there was a bit of a crack and then the tingling just stopped. Almost instantly my foot had full motion.\u00a0 <\/span>It was the craziest thing.\u00a0 <\/span>I figured I cured myself! <\/span><\/p>\n

Everything returned back to normal and Sunday was a great day.\u00a0 <\/span>I also remembered not to eat and drove myself to the lab to get a ton of blood work done on Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-early-symptoms","tag-moderate"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/waiting-room-min.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcraik.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}