On 31st January, I fainted for the first time in my life and smashed my face into the metal table in our kitchen and then was spun over onto my back and my head hit the floor. I'd broken my skull in two places and was knocked unconscious. My wife had to get me an ambulance which took me to intensive care where they put me on a ventilator. They transferred me to another unit with a neurosurgical dept and they drilled a hole into my skull to continually monitor the intra-cranial pressure. They informed my friends and relatives that I was in a bad way with some serious brain damage and they said I could suffer enormous damage. Well I was in there and semi-conscious for 9 days but then I came to. They transferred me back to the previous unit and they kept me in under medication for a week. During this time, I'd lost over 15 kilograms and all the muscle on my legs due to no movement as well as loads of body mass so I felt weak and tired.
Anyway, my residual fitness and determination meant that once I came to, I started to show a positive benefit. The consultant told me after a week that I could go home with my wife as she's a senior, experienced nurse. I came home last Wednesday and since then, I've shown a huge improvement on each day. My headache has mostly gone away and my tablet consumption has reduced to almost nothing. My memory is flooding back and my mental determination is coming through massively. I am still a little bit sluggish but about 98% better than at the nadir of my condition after smashing my head. I'd reckon that by next Monday morning, I'll be back in good condition so I look forward to that.
I reckon that in April, I'll have the sufficient positivity to go out on distances on a bike. This would mean I'd have less fear of collapsing on the bike or coming off and causing myself more head damage.
So there we go. Fainting was at 6.30 pm and had no reason so it came totally out of the blue and was a tremendous shock. Here's looking positively to the future.
Anyway, my residual fitness and determination meant that once I came to, I started to show a positive benefit. The consultant told me after a week that I could go home with my wife as she's a senior, experienced nurse. I came home last Wednesday and since then, I've shown a huge improvement on each day. My headache has mostly gone away and my tablet consumption has reduced to almost nothing. My memory is flooding back and my mental determination is coming through massively. I am still a little bit sluggish but about 98% better than at the nadir of my condition after smashing my head. I'd reckon that by next Monday morning, I'll be back in good condition so I look forward to that.
I reckon that in April, I'll have the sufficient positivity to go out on distances on a bike. This would mean I'd have less fear of collapsing on the bike or coming off and causing myself more head damage.
So there we go. Fainting was at 6.30 pm and had no reason so it came totally out of the blue and was a tremendous shock. Here's looking positively to the future.
