Holy crap...I think I had a stroke

Let me start off by saying that I am an annoyingly healthy person. I haven't had a doctor for 10 years, because I honestly haven't needed one. I think 2-3 times in 10 years I've needed to go to urgent care for a bladder infection. I don't wear glasses. I live strictly by the code, "Wait a week. If it is still bugging you, go to the doctor." And -so far- nothing has lasted a week.

Yesterday was one of the scariest moments of my life. I was happily whining the day away with a sick almost-5 year old male (we all know that gender distinction makes a difference) and a bipolar 2 year old girl (again...gender) and a happy-go-lucky perfect baby. We were at the grocery by 8 am to stock up on Popsicles and juice and cough syrup and donuts and other sick foods...well maybe not the donuts, but did I mention the bipolar 2 year old? We played house a million and one times, I made dinner in the crock pot, Michael went down for a nap, and I called my friend Annie while I made lunch for the crew. I had a lovely conversation with her, and by the end of it I had noticed this little nagging ear/behind the left eye pain. I got off the phone with her and ate my lunch, hoping I was just hungry.

15 minutes later, I was reeling. Nauseous, dizzy, the works. I decided this felt like a migraine...I've never had one, but the eye distortion and stabbing head pain made me assume this. I decided to call Jeff to moan to him, but I couldn't remember his phone number. You know, the one that I call numerous times a day. Then I almost threw up. I didn't, for some reason, but now I was feeling tingly numbness in my extremities. I literally thought maybe I was having a stroke. I couldn't get full sentences out when speaking to the children. Lily's nap time came and I said something like, "Lily say goodbye goodnight good to you Mi to your And to go to bed" and stumbled upstairs with her, seeing spots the whole time. I grabbed the phone again and literally had to punch in the numbers while using my other finger to follow along Jeff's business card. I left some kind of rambling message, because, again, I wasn't able to complete sentences. I corralled Andrew upstairs for his sick-day nap. Thank God the children went down without a fuss. Michael had just woken from his nap, so I put him in the swing and sat in front of the toilet. Jeff came home, I went upstairs, threw up my lunch and tried to will the pain away. While I "slept", Jeff apparently looked up my symptoms and decided it was weird for me to have a migraine, since I've never had one before...perhaps I had meningitis. I must have freaked him out good, since he came home from work without question and then was ready to take me to the emergency room.

I did fall asleep for a little while and got out of bed after a few hours to feed Michael (boy's still got to eat!). My head and ear ached all the rest of the day, but I never felt that tingly feeling or the disorientation again. Thank heavens. Unpleasant. Scary. This morning I have a haunting ache threatening behind my ear and eye. It doesn't even really hurt...it's just threatening to.

Ugh. So I think this was a migraine. I was shocked at the speed it hit me and the complete body collapse it caused. I cannot imagine how people with chronic migraines function in normal society. I was not able to take care of my children. What would I do if this happened frequently. Which makes me worry why this has happened now. What if that last pregnancy just through my hormones into a place where THIS is my new PMS symptom. I still haven't gotten my period back, but perhaps this is the sign it is coming.

AAAACCCCHHHH! Maybe I should be putting in a call to my primary care physician. ;)