No more broken neck (I think)

Well last week I fainted. I have no idea why. I was sitting in front of the fireplace and stretched up to straighten a picture. I had to stretch pretty far, but still... The world became little fish eye that got smaller and smaller. I tried to grab a door handle and save myself but I couldn't reach it. The next thing I knew I woke on the floor and my head and arm hurt. I apparently hit a table on the way down. I have bruises all down my arm and the right side of my spine. I have a nasty lump on the back of my skull too. It really hurt. I gingerly tested out my body and got up with some help from Nina and Sandy. I went straight to bed then. I knew I should go to Casualty but all they would do is make me lay flat for the 5 or 6 hours it takes before they see you, then they would have sent me for a catscan or x-ray and then told me to see my GP the next day. My GP was irritated I didn't do it though because them we'd have the x-ray. Also, I have no idea why I fainted and was no use that way. Maybe I got up too quickly? My blood pressure is always low-ish and that couldn't have helped.

Anyway, the GP said if my neck was hurt, the experiments I was doing would have turned me into a quadriplegic... *shrug* I don't know... but I would never do anything that hurt or left me numb or anything. He rang the Nuerosurgeon and they checked my catscan from last week and GUESS WHAT? My broken neck has HEALED! I'm not allowed to act on this until I see the Neurosurgeon this week but it seems the break is gone woohoo!!!!

I have a permanent tilt to the bone of 5 mm and a curvature of the spine (which you isn't evident yet). I may suffer pain and arthritis in the bone and there's other bits an pieces, but it's so good to be on the mend.

I laughed at myself when I realised a very small part of me was missing the attention of having a broken neck. For heavens sake, the attention I get as a woman and person is much better than that. But I wouldn't be honest if I didn't acknowledge it. I told the Doctor he had made me so happy I could skip home *laugh* and he begged me not to it, just in case I fell again.

Sheesh in a month I have fainted, set myself on fire (dressing gown, Sandy noticed), and nearly needed stitches because I locked the toilet door at the movies on my finger. I've hit my shoulder so many times too- I'm just like a cat with cut whiskers that doesn't know her own dimensions any more. I think I need to plan stuff a bit more, I'm just not as fast to move as I used to be and so I can't rely on my body to get me out of messes, just my brain. I have to plan stuff before I move I think.

My arm was pretty damaged during the fall too, but we'll just wait and see I guess. I see the Neuro Wednesday and then I make an appointment to see the Orthaepedic Surgeon afterwards, so I guess I'll find out what is happening then. I was a bit stiff and stuff when the Physio checked it out. Shrink now, gotta go.