Almost went to the hospital

We had health scare on Monday. Yours truly almost died. Ok, that was a little dramatic, but for what seemed like a lifetime [3hours], I was sure I was a goner. Ill start from the beginning.

Sunday

I was at my parents house. I usually try to go home every weekend and spend time. All my brothers have moved out, so its just them in our house in Garland. I feel like the older I get the closer we should be, so going home every weekend is my way of staying in the loop. Anyhow, I dont know if it was the subway I ate for lunch or the yam & eggs [Nigerian special], I greedily ate after not being satisfied with the subway, but I had a major case of the mud butt! (please click the hyperlink if this term is unfamiliar to you) Anyway, I was taking all kinds of medicine to make it go away but it just didn't happen. I was in agony. I eventually found my way off the toilet seat and just passed out on the couch. I just felt like shit. Muscles aching, head was pounding, stomach was rumbling. Classic flu -like symptoms. It was awful. It was so bad I couldn't even leave my parents house. I spent the night there and got up at 5:30am , so i could quickly drive home and get ready for work.

Yes i had to work: I ran out of sick days :(

Monday

Monday was probably the most miserable day ive ever had at work. I just never felt good the whole day. Add the fact that my management team is stressing everyone out because of mismanaged initiatives that have come back to bite us in the ass at year end, this made things even worse. I wont even get into the story of how I had my last sick day taken from me, but as payback I made sure that i coughed in the faces of those responsible for that debacle as much as a could. [evil i know, but hey, what goes around comes around]. Anyway, Ive been working on some small investment deals with some people I know, & I had to meet one my partners after work. Driving there, i could tell i was taking a turn for the worst, but I just wanted to get the meeting over with, as this person is really hard to get ahold of. Just my luck : I get to my partners office and hes running late. I guess I waited around for him for about 40 minutes when it started. I noticed that I kept getting this feeling of being extremely cold. Freezing cold. I figured that it was the building I was in, but when i looked around every body seem comfortable with the temperature in the office. It was me. Before I knew it, I started to shiver. I was so cold. I walked around trying to warm myself up, but it didn't work. I even looked for coffee, which I hate, but i needed something to keep warm. When I found out that the coffee maker was broken, the shiver I had, graduated to a full blown shake. It was uncontrollable. I was just sitting in this mans shaking like a junkie looking for his next fix. Like a crack head fresh out of "rocks". I would take deep breaths to try to control it, but every time I was able to slow it down, the shakes came back, at a machine gun pace. After 20 minutes of tryin to make it stop, I decided to leave. I didnt want this man, who i was trying to do business with, to find me in his office shaking like a heroin addict or something. So I shook my ass all the way to my car. I knew I was in trouble, because putting the key in the ignition was so hard to do. It was at that point that I called my mother. Man, I am a true mamas boy. When I called her, I told her "something is wrong". My mother is a nurse, so she started asking me questions about what was going on with me. I could feel her concern grow with every stuttering answer I gave. [I was shaking so bad, I couldnt talk straight] I don't know if it was the meds or what, but hearing my mother being concerned like that made me burst into tears. Try to picture this if you can, Im sitting in my truck shaking wildy, crying, & stuttering on the phone trying to explain to my mother what was happening to me. It was the worst. I had no control of my body whatsoever. Ive never experienced anything like this in my life. I kept asking my self, "Am I about to have a seizure?" My mother suggested that I try to drive to the hospital, but in my current state, I wasn't really sure that I could make it. I wasn't too far from my house, so I decided to see if i could drive home. This was the longest 10 minute drive of my life. I just couldn't stop shaking. I would get to red lights and I could feel the eyes of people in the lanes next to me, looking at me and wondering what was going on. Yes, it was that bad. I finally made it home and made a b-line to my bed and buried myself in blankets. I guess my parents made a panicked phone call to my brother, because he got to the house not long after I did. He ran upstairs to check on me and by then the shaking had calmed down. He wanted to take me to the emergency room, but I told him he need to go get me some thera flu: I hate hospitals, so i was just gonna ride this out. By the time my parents came to my condo, the shaking had stopped. When i looked at my moms face, I saw that she had been crying & it broke my heart. I hate to make her worry about me, and I guess she was worried to tears. We dont talk about how we feel alot in our family, but on Monday, December 1oth, 2007, I felt loved and important. Im obviously better now, because im back on the blog, but i encourage anyone who is reading this, to tell the people you care about that you love them. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone.

Till next time......