Migraine | Obsessive Ramblings

March 21st, 2012 | Comments Off

I was back to work again today, but at least the trains were playing ball this morning. Savannah’s friend’s Mum, Kate, very kindly picked them up and took them to school, so Liz was able to rest after the initial mayhem of the morning! She also brought them home in the afternoon. Work was busy today, as Wednesday’s tend to be, but doubly so at the moment with everything that is going on both at work and … Read entire article »

Hospital Allergies

March 9th, 2012 | 24 Comments

What a rollercoaster of a day. The results of Liz’s MRI did not come through last night but this morning she was told that she had indeed had a stroke. Incredulous as it seems for someone of her age, the scan showed up signs of events which were consistent with the plethora of symptoms which she had been experiencing during the early part of the week and continues to experience now, but to a lesser extent. … Read entire article »

Scan Update

March 8th, 2012 | Comments Off

The more astute among you will have noticed that my countdown to my next race has disappeared slightly before time. Unfortunately, as Liz has not been well over the last few days we have decided it would not be prudent to travel down to Devon to the race. Realistically though, since my training has been interrupted over the last few weeks, I suspect it would be more sensible not to attempt such a gruelling trail race … Read entire article »

Being Like Michael Jackson

March 7th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Liz still wasn’t better today, and after speaking to our doctor, was advised to go into hospital for a scan, as she (the doctor) thought that things were lasting rather too long. So we sat around for most of the day in the so called Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) of the Royal Surrey County Hospital, but I had to leave her about 2:30 to pick up the children. She was seen by another Doctor later, but his … Read entire article »

Silent Migraine

March 6th, 2012 | 2 Comments

It seems my wife has a ‘Silent Migraine’. The Silent, or Acephalgic Migraine, has all the symptoms of a real corker of a normal migraine, but ironically without the headache part, which is what most people associate first and foremost with a migraine, hence, presumably, also the reason why half of the Surrey medical profession has missed the diagnosis until Liz herself looked it up to correlate it with all the classical symptoms. The symptoms include the … Read entire article »