April 19, 2004
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Photo Of The Day: Warehouse II
Click icon to openI woke up yesterday with an itchy throat and stuffy nose. Nothing too bad, just some mild allergies thanks to the brisk winds that have been blowing since Friday. Erin and I packed up our photo gear and coerced Iris into the car ("Want to go to the park, honey?"). Within 2 minutes of leaving her house, not even out of the neighborhood we share yet and I was completely
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nted.
My head turned inside out. My vision spiraled from the horizon through my skull. Vertigo slammed into the back of my head and rippled through my occipital lobe.
Then, I was fine. I recognized everything once again. I knew where we were. I knew the green stuff on the ground was the perfect urban lawns. I knew the large, colorful shapes were houses.
A second tsunami spun sensory overload straight up the center of my sight. My vision tunneled and became over saturated. No thing look ed quit e rig ht. My eye s had stop ped ma king sen se. COLORS BECAME TOO BRIGHT AND TOO LOUD.
The words oozed from my mouth, I asked Erin to pull over. To stop. She did, and I asked her to take me home. I wasn't feeling well. I wasn't nauseous, something wasn't right inside my head. Inner ear fluids. Something.
She dropped me off and came back with the kinds of medicines only nurses know about. I took them, after having to ask her which ones to take when and not being able to remember, finally having to write it down.
Thought ceased and I slept for 5 hours.
I woke up, still not quite right, but I needed to clean my car. So I had Erin come get me, take me to her house where I'd left my car. We cleaned our cars, my head occasionally swimming like an epileptic in the 100m freestyle.
I came home and ate. I took the pills she'd given me and slipped off to sleep at 10 pm.
Still a little off today. But I'm much much better.
Comments (11)
Trippy. You know, some people pay good money for an experience like that.
Is Erin a nurse? If so, her stock just soared in my book! Glad to hear you are feeling better.
whoa, that is trippin. glad you're feeling better.
That is no fun....happened to me a few weeks ago actually...it ended up being a really bad sinus infection.
Yuck. That does NOT sound like fun. Rest lots and get some good lovin' from that awesome woman of yours.
Once upon a time, a viral infection slipped into my system and caused two weeks of what you described above. My mother decided (long distance, on the phone with the Professor) that the epileptic signs I had shown in my childhood (four seizures, then nothing) had finally decided to manifest itself.
Fevers raged and I lost my orientation within the confines of the living room to which my futon had been moved. Drugs were issued, evaluated and reissued and the inflammation which was apparently visible on the MRI of my brain (doctors here were whispering words like meningitis and scared enough to stuff me in the tube ) eventually resided.
No one knows where it came from, what it really was (other than a viral infection) and it hasn't returned.
May this be the last time you experience something of this nature.
Dude.....I've asked you time and again not to eat the brown acid. But no, you just won't listen, will you.
Seriously, hope you're feeling better, bro.
i remember when noone believed that my ear hurt.
then the blood shot out of my ear, splattering my mother and her boyfriend.
turns out, my eardrum burst. i couldn't see things right, and i couldn't breathe right, and i couldn't stand up.
i slept for a week. in a recliner.
the pain was so bad i couldn't even talk correctly half the time.
moral: dammit. that better not happen to you!
Happy to hear you're on the mend...
No more sick little monkey... there are PICTURES to be taken!
I love your new profile pic...
My throat is itchy too...I hope you feel better soon.
Scary. Good thing she knew what to do for you. Other than that, things are good for you, yes? Suddenly notice profile pic....cowbell! oooh! <3!
Feel better.
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