Sunday, January 11, 2008

Today started out really great, got up early, read the paper, then went to breakfast with my DH family--his aunt takes us all out for a yearly new year breakfast (us, my two SIL and their spouses, and my MIL) it's a tradition that started several years ago with my husband's grandmother and now his aunt does it in her memory. Anyhow, as we left the restaurant my husband said I'm seeing two of everything and when I asked him how long this had been going on he said it started Saturday morning. He's such a pain in the butt about telling me when something is not quite right, especially if it entails seeing a doctor!! When we got home, I immediately got online and looked up causes for double vision while calling my mom, who told me to take him asap to the ER...when I pulled up the causes online I knew what had happened---he had suffered a mini stroke. So called the clinic, his doctor was on call and told him to get to the urgent care immediately...so I drove him to the UC, where he was checked out and told it was most likely a mini stroke but because it happened yesterday any testing they would do wouldn't show anything--in other words, he waited too long. However, they did make an appointment with an optomologist for Monday a.m. so they could see if there has been any damage to his eyes, then patched over one eye to alleve the double vision for today. So this day, had turned out not to be a good one for me...now I have to worry about something happening in the future and my DH is only 59 yrs old. Guess, I better be praying alot more and making plans to live our life to the fullest from now on. I have only told three people (my mom, my DSIL,a nd my BFF) about this and will not tell our children since they all live in other states and no use to upset them right now until we know more of what's going on. I really am hoping that this is something that will pass quickly and with the right care can be controlled to prevent anything worse.

Sorry for rambling I'm just really upset about this and the fact that my DH didn't tell me when I came home from work last night...he thought it was that his glasses where going bad--Men, what can you do about them??

That's all for today!! I'll keep posting updates as we find out more.