I thought it was vertigo

I’m gonna start off this blog by saying that I was a pretty healthy young 37 , right now 38. I was a young 37-year-old mom. Mom who went on runs and worked out daily ate pretty good, healthy weight everything was good until…

August 6, 2021 it was a Friday like any other Friday I was up early making breakfast for everybody. School doesn’t start for another two weeks and we are all home. Summer 2021!

I am making pancakes and as some come off the griddle I go tell my eight-year-old son his pancakes are ready I start walking down the hallway and I start feeling dizzy dizzy is all I can say the whole house started to move and when I made it to the living room I couldn’t walk anymore I couldn’t hold myself up I fell on myself onto the floor I couldn’t use my arms I couldn’t use anything all I can doWas use my voice to voice text my husband who was in the bathroom.

“Help the room is spinning I can’t get up” is what I think I texted him or something like that

That whole weekend I thought it was vertigo I called my mom I told her I was just dizzy and I couldn’t walk I just felt like crap but after four or five days of constant feeling sick and throwing up my mom finally told me she had had enough of seeing me like this and I need to go to the hospital. What if it was something else something bigger … like a brain bleed!

A brain bleed I thought why would she even get that but she was right it was already August 10 Monday and I decided To go in to the emergency room or to the closest hospital nearby which is only a few blocks away from my neighborhood.

I honestly did not think anything of it I thought it was just vertigo and I was just needing to rest and I did I needed to rest. They proceeded to do a CAT scan there at the emergency room at the hospital and there they found that I had blood in my brain yes it was in fact a brain bleed they had to transfer me to a bigger hospital because there was nothing that they can do there for me. it had stopped bleeding on a it’s own luckily which is why I guess I kind of feel better but not even close to how I am. Or was .

Of course because of this Covid my husband could not go into the emergency with me or ride in the ambulance with me he proceeded to follow the ambulance that took me to a bigger hospital. There I had to get MRI scans, CAT scans, blood drawn, numerous studies where they finally realize it figured that I had a malformation of veins in my cerebellum which coctel balance mobility etc. That I had actually had what they called say a stroke caused by malformation a Veins that is in my brain who would’ve thought I would’ve never guessed. When , how , why I have these veins no one knows .

I’m a young mom, I have young kids my oldest is 12 my youngest is 4. This cannot be happening I have a husband who needs me kids are in school I stay home this cannot be happening I cannot be out of commission. This dizziness that I was feeling was not vertigo not what I thought at all.