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Aw, love and best wishes Florence, hope you get better soon, take care xx.

Sending you all my positive thoughts and best wishes <3

Sorry to hear that you've had such a worrying time, Florence.

Good to know that you are being carefully checked now and I hope all will go well with your MRI scan.

Florence sending best wishes for your MIR scan positive thoughts xx

This happened to me 3 years ago. It is called a mini-stroke.

https://www.stroke.org.uk/what-is-stroke/types-of-stroke/transient-ischaemic-attack

tho' my symptoms seem to have been a wee bit more dramatic. As you say very sudden. I had to go for all sorts of tests at the end of which I eventually got my drivers licence back. I thought I was quite fit, running and laying squash but there seems more to it than that.

I have cut back dramatically on how much alchohol I drink and stopped working late. I was advised to drink more water. Now I feel like a spring lamb!

You can expect a total recovery but do whatever they tell you to do going forward or you may suffer the full deal.

Aw ty Just Ginnie

Will update when I have more news.

Florence in the hebrides

Sounds really scary, sending you best wishes and hope all is well on your MRI scan

Hello peeps, well guess where i landed on Thursday morning? Yep back in hospital.
On wed eve something about 9pm happened which was scary.basically i was sitting on the comp when I thought the ground was shaking.
So I grabbed the edge of comp desk and printer and then my daughter came over to me and said that it was me that was shaking.

It only lasted a couple of minutes and then stopped.

I then felt ok. Couldnt understand what had just happened but when i was chatting to dad around 10.45, i lost the feeling in my left hand and fingers and couldnt grip the phone.

But in a couple of minutes it passed and all was back to normal.

On Thursday morning, I tel GP and he immediately tel the hosp who told him to get me an ambulance asap.

So Thats where i landed up and had xrays, scans CT loads of bloods etc and questioned by a consultant.

After getting a 2nd opinion on the CT scan from Aberdenn & Inverness, its pointing towards a small stroke!

I was ataken back when they told me this and suddenly felt very scared given all that Ive been through recently with heart surgery.

So Ive to go away in 2 weeks for an MRI scan in Inverness which will show more detail. They told me i certainly cannot drive ufn which is ironinc as I just taxed, insured and unsorned the car!! I wont be going to work on the 12 Aug either.

So what next?

Its really been a scary couple of days.

Florence in the hebrides