A HYPOCHANDRIACS TALE

Another Trip To The E.R  

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Well it all started early this morning 5:30 AM to be exact i felt a little tightness in the back of my neck which was making the back of my head feel a little weird. I didn’t really want to pay to much attention to it because i had to drive my wife to work and take the kids to school and i just can’t let myself get nervous. I kept saying to myself it’s ok it will go away it’s nothing but deep down in the back of my head i know there’s an Anxiety Attack starting to brew. I can already hear that little voice in my head saying what if it’s a tumor or an aneurysm.

Ok at this point everybody is dropped off the only one i have is my little 2yr. old and by now the back of my head is starting to feel heavy and numb so now I’m really about to start freaking out not only from what i feel but now I’m thinking what if i pass out who’s going to know what’s going to happen to my kid who’s going to let her mother know what has happened is she going to be alright. These are the things that run through my mind. Sometimes i just want to stab my brain with a Q-tip just so it can slow down a bit. But anyway i call my doctor and he tells me come right over. I shoot out the door drop the baby off at my wife’s sisters house and speed all the way his office. He checks me out and tells me it’s just a tension headache. I said are you sure. How do you know it isn’t a tumor or an aneurysm. What are the symptoms.

He say’s to me just relax and stay of the internet. Stop trying to diagnose yourself. You’re reading to much again you are ok. So i leave his office call my wife tell her what he said she said ok just go home and try to relax. I go pick up my kid take her home and i sit in front of my computer. And there goes that tingling in my head again worst than earlier. I start to panic and break out in a cold sweat. I look atthe clock it’s almost 3:00 PM. I run back to the kids school signed them out early just incase something happens to me they’ll already be at home safe and sound.I get on the phone call my wife and tell her she has to leave work. Make something up tell your supervisor something anything I need to get to the E.R there’s something wrong with me. Well i finally make it to the E.R.

After sitting there for 2Hrs. they finally call me back the doc comes in i explain everything to him he orders a CT scan and it comes back normal he checks my eyes,blood pressure, everything and cant find nothing wrong with me and then he tells me it’s probably a tension headache. Now i feel like an idiot anyway he then starts telling me that a tension headache feels different than a regular headache and gives me some ibuprofen and a prescription for valium. I guess he must of sense me having a panic attack. what do you think?

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