out damn clot!
Thursday, 16. November 2006, 13:09:13
It eventually came to the point where i was able to back into mainstream schooling, and i recall the hassle and all the fighting that my mother had to do to get me into a decent school as we really do have some nasty schools with bad reputations of the pupils and teachers. The school i was put into was a Roman Catholic School where the head, and deputy head were Nuns, the head teacher was a nice woman i recall but the deputy head was a bitch and then some .
The teachers were nice - mostly, you always get a couple - and life goes on as normally as it possibly can, school was school, kids were kids you know what i mean. The usual check up appointments at the hospital to see everything was going smoothly - which is now evident that it wasn't, but they hadn't spotted anything at that point - not till i was transferred over to a sister hospital and switched to the children's outpatients there was the growth hormone problem spotted (i think) yes must be.
This is a bit of a blur, i don't remember exactly which way this goes around but never mind i'll continue. It was either in the summer of 1991 or just after i'd started the senior school that September , incidentally the senior school was a Roman Catholic School which was all boys - not mixed like the junior school as there was one all girls school just down the road, the sister school if you like of the one i went into.
Anyway, slight detour there, yes, so summer or just after starting senior school not sure.
I was standing talking to my mother in the kitchen one day when all of a sudden something strange happened, i started to go all tingly down the left hand side of my body - a feeling like pins and needles - mostly in the hand and arm to start off i recall then the sensation became stronger and moved up to include my face and as i was talking, explaining what was happening to my mother, my speech became affected as i slurred words while the left half of my face and mouth became numb.
A most worrying and horrible experience as i had no idea what was happening, as you could probably imagine if this happened to any of you. After what seemed like far too long, but in actual fact was only a few minutes it passed over me and i was back to normal. A hospital appointment most quickly ensued and a scan took place of my head to see what was wrong, a calcified blood clot was discovered that was thought to have caused a mini stroke. Thankfully this causes me no bother now although from time to time i do wonder as on odd occasions my left hand and lover part of my arm will get pins and needles and go numb to the point of dead then suddenly spring back after a few minutes, whether that is remnant of the clot or just a trapped nerve at the top of my arm i don't know.
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The teachers were nice - mostly, you always get a couple - and life goes on as normally as it possibly can, school was school, kids were kids you know what i mean. The usual check up appointments at the hospital to see everything was going smoothly - which is now evident that it wasn't, but they hadn't spotted anything at that point - not till i was transferred over to a sister hospital and switched to the children's outpatients there was the growth hormone problem spotted (i think) yes must be.
This is a bit of a blur, i don't remember exactly which way this goes around but never mind i'll continue. It was either in the summer of 1991 or just after i'd started the senior school that September , incidentally the senior school was a Roman Catholic School which was all boys - not mixed like the junior school as there was one all girls school just down the road, the sister school if you like of the one i went into.
Anyway, slight detour there, yes, so summer or just after starting senior school not sure.
I was standing talking to my mother in the kitchen one day when all of a sudden something strange happened, i started to go all tingly down the left hand side of my body - a feeling like pins and needles - mostly in the hand and arm to start off i recall then the sensation became stronger and moved up to include my face and as i was talking, explaining what was happening to my mother, my speech became affected as i slurred words while the left half of my face and mouth became numb.
A most worrying and horrible experience as i had no idea what was happening, as you could probably imagine if this happened to any of you. After what seemed like far too long, but in actual fact was only a few minutes it passed over me and i was back to normal. A hospital appointment most quickly ensued and a scan took place of my head to see what was wrong, a calcified blood clot was discovered that was thought to have caused a mini stroke. Thankfully this causes me no bother now although from time to time i do wonder as on odd occasions my left hand and lover part of my arm will get pins and needles and go numb to the point of dead then suddenly spring back after a few minutes, whether that is remnant of the clot or just a trapped nerve at the top of my arm i don't know.
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