I Broke My Brain...
All I can feel right now is the intense pain in my head. Of course, it didn't just happen that way. Actually, I can't remember the exact details of how it did happen. But, as far as I can tell it went like this:
I went out for my bike ride at about 1:00 P.M. Didn't have a bite to eat yet that day. (The scale said 204.5 lbs. and I wanted to see it drop to 203 when I got back...) The first 15-20 minutes of my ride were great, I was making good time at about 19 mph. But, I started getting hotter and hotter and hotter. By the time I made it to the half way point I felt like I was on fire, that was around 7 miles or so.
But, I continued to bike anyways... I got another roughly 2 miles before I collapsed in a small wooded park. I spent the next 30-45 minutes trying to get up and not fall down again. When I finally did get up again and on my bike it only took MAYBE another mile before I was utterly exhausted to the point of biking at 2-3 mph. I stopped at the hospital for some cold water, as my two bottles were tapped out.
I asked the Triage nurse for some aspirin and she said I would have to see a doctor for that. I declined...
I walked outside with my cold water-filled bottles and couldn't work up enough strength to get on my bike. So, I went back inside and checked in with the nurse.
Things went from bad to worse I think (not really clear on alot of this now...) and I ended up slip in and out for a while. I remember asking why I had to have an IV and I must have been asking that alot because the doctor simply snapped at me, "Because I said so.".
They gave me Toradol and Imotrex for my "headache" and I slipped in and out some more for the next 5 hours. A lady than walks in at this point and is from the neurology ward. She asks me a bunch of questions and I answered them the best I could. Explained the pin prick lights that seem to come and go, the shadows in the corners of my eyes. She asks me if I ever get my words or sentences jumbled up and I can't say anything but yes to that.
She starts doing a number of tests, some of them it appears I failed because she tried them over again. My wrist reflexes weren't there. My right leg didn't kick when my knee was hit. And, I don't know if I failed the Babinski's Reflex test on my feet because she went to town on my left foot. Afterwards she asked me if, "You ever lose feeling in your hands or feet". Which, I do, and have. It gets bad when I bike and I can barely feel my feet sometimes.
Needless to say, she found something amiss enough to schedule me for a neurological follow-up, which I am going to go to.
My headache still hasn't gone away and they prescribed me Darvocet and 800mg Ibuprofen every 8 hours. I know the Ibuprofen is common, but that is one heck of a dose...
So, as of this moment I appear to have broken my brain. If it's related to the heat stroke and dehydration I don't know, or maybe it was in conjunction with, or brought forward by...any way you put it this can't be a good thing...
I went out for my bike ride at about 1:00 P.M. Didn't have a bite to eat yet that day. (The scale said 204.5 lbs. and I wanted to see it drop to 203 when I got back...) The first 15-20 minutes of my ride were great, I was making good time at about 19 mph. But, I started getting hotter and hotter and hotter. By the time I made it to the half way point I felt like I was on fire, that was around 7 miles or so.
But, I continued to bike anyways... I got another roughly 2 miles before I collapsed in a small wooded park. I spent the next 30-45 minutes trying to get up and not fall down again. When I finally did get up again and on my bike it only took MAYBE another mile before I was utterly exhausted to the point of biking at 2-3 mph. I stopped at the hospital for some cold water, as my two bottles were tapped out.
I asked the Triage nurse for some aspirin and she said I would have to see a doctor for that. I declined...
I walked outside with my cold water-filled bottles and couldn't work up enough strength to get on my bike. So, I went back inside and checked in with the nurse.
Things went from bad to worse I think (not really clear on alot of this now...) and I ended up slip in and out for a while. I remember asking why I had to have an IV and I must have been asking that alot because the doctor simply snapped at me, "Because I said so.".
They gave me Toradol and Imotrex for my "headache" and I slipped in and out some more for the next 5 hours. A lady than walks in at this point and is from the neurology ward. She asks me a bunch of questions and I answered them the best I could. Explained the pin prick lights that seem to come and go, the shadows in the corners of my eyes. She asks me if I ever get my words or sentences jumbled up and I can't say anything but yes to that.
She starts doing a number of tests, some of them it appears I failed because she tried them over again. My wrist reflexes weren't there. My right leg didn't kick when my knee was hit. And, I don't know if I failed the Babinski's Reflex test on my feet because she went to town on my left foot. Afterwards she asked me if, "You ever lose feeling in your hands or feet". Which, I do, and have. It gets bad when I bike and I can barely feel my feet sometimes.
Needless to say, she found something amiss enough to schedule me for a neurological follow-up, which I am going to go to.
My headache still hasn't gone away and they prescribed me Darvocet and 800mg Ibuprofen every 8 hours. I know the Ibuprofen is common, but that is one heck of a dose...
So, as of this moment I appear to have broken my brain. If it's related to the heat stroke and dehydration I don't know, or maybe it was in conjunction with, or brought forward by...any way you put it this can't be a good thing...