Nov 11 2007
Last Night was Awful
Last night I woke up at about 4am. My right leg was dead asleep from the knee to the toe. I couldn’t move it, couldn’t feel it, had no sensation at all. I hate that.
And then after I moved and rubbed it a bit, I had to go to the bathroom. So I did… and it was awful. It really felt like my leg being asleep, and the rush of blood back into the leg and out of the rest of my body, cause me extreme nausea. I spent the next fifteen minutes alternating between sitting on the toilet with diarrhea, and laying on the floor of the bathroom because I couldn’t stand up. It was awful. It felt a bit like after I give blood… I don’t give blood because when I do, I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck for the next three days. I wish I could give blood, I’ve done it twice, but I feel to miserable afterwards. I think it’s because of my super low blood pressure.
So my entirely uneducated guess was that my low blood pressure lowered even more and caused me these symptoms.
When I felt good enough to crawl to the bed and didn’t have to be next to the toilet, I woke up my husband and laid with him a while. He is such a wonderful man. He didn’t get mad, he just held me. I can’t even describe the amazing comfort of his strength and love and presence. He was so warm, it was like he had the healing touch. Which, actually, I think he does have, but he doesn’t really know it.
Anyway, I went back to sleep after and slept the rest of the night. Woke up kinda woozy but I think I’m okay now. I hope that never happens again. My husband thinks it was just some sort of stomach bug… but I just don’t know.
