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Buy female pink viagra without prescription, Spoiler: everyone's fine, no one got hurt, and Mom owes Nick a bottle of wine.
So. 27 years, practically to the minute, Buy female pink viagra canada, from my momentous birth, I celebrated its anniversary in the ER of Sierra Vista, Arizona's regional health center. Not hospital. Sierra Vista does not have a hospital, cheap generic female pink viagra.
Why was I in the hospital, buy female pink viagra without prescription. Oh, it's an entertaining story.
On Friday (the day before my birthday), Cheap female pink viagra from usa, we had plans to attend a friend's murder mystery dinner party and bring a bottle of wine. After a normal day of work, I went and got my nails all did, came home, got a call from David on his way home from class, female pink viagra cheap, ran an errand with David, and realized that I was having language troubles. Sometimes I can be sloppy with enunciation, Female pink viagra for order, and I'd noticed that I was doing that a bit while we were out. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, Then I noticed that I wasn't able to pick words on the fly. This was a new development, as I'd been in phone meetings all day with no trouble. Time: 5-5:30 PM.
I remembered the word for what I was experiencing: Aphasia.
In short, female pink viagra information, aphasia is a neurological symptom that affects the ability to use language. Some kinds of aphasia cause issues with comprehension, some with expression. In my case, I had trouble remembering words for concepts, retaining in words the memory of complex conversations, and clearly enunciating complex words, buy female pink viagra without prescription. Find no rx female pink viagra, I had very clear thoughts but in images, not words. I didn't have any problem reading (that I recall) but couldn't compose.
Aphasia is a common symptom for stroke or TIA (transient ischemic attack or "mini-stroke"). Some of you may know that there's a Nobel laureate back in my lineage who did lots of research on how the two sides of the brain interact - one of his key studies had lobotomy subjects trying to name objects, cheap female pink viagra in usa. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, They knew what the objects were but couldn't access the vocabulary to name them. That's more or less what I was experiencing, and I remembered that Broca's area is in the left hemisphere, so I started making sure that all my limbs were fully under my control, Female pink viagra generic, there wasn't any tingling, etc. etc.
What can I say, I'm a nerd, order female pink viagra no prescription.
Anyway, I asked David to keep an eye on me. I also realized that I was thirsty, so I started drinking water, buy female pink viagra without prescription. More on that in a bit. Female pink viagra overnight shipping, The aphasia got worse, to the point where I was upset and starting to gather up all my medical insurance information, and we headed to the ER. Remember, Sierra Vista does not have a hospital, order female pink viagra in us. They have a Regional Health Center that has a small ER, and good lord was that waiting room crowded. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, David got me checked in and explained the symptoms, I gave him my insurance ID number and relevant bits of health history (allergy to benzoyl peroxide, normal bp/pulse/respirations, no history of this kind of thing, I'd been thirsty, etc.) and we settled down to wait. Time: 6 PM. Find female pink viagra without prescription, I started getting the powers of speech back around 6:30. Steady improvements from then on. I continued sipping water and doing little mental exercises to make sure that I was retaining my vocabulary. This is a chair, buy female pink viagra without prescription. That is a purple scarf. My goodness, female pink viagra malaysia, I don't think that woman could wear a shorter or tighter skirt on those legs. I am comprehending everything that I'm reading (The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson. Female pink viagra online sales, Very complex, very satisfying read, if a bit hard to get into at first). Buy female pink viagra without prescription, This is my experience.
Triage nurse finally sees me around 7:30 or 8 PM. I kind of give up watching the clock by this point, order female pink viagra no rx. I have full powers of speech. She takes my blood pressure reading, gets a more detailed history, Find female pink viagra, and sends me off to get all registered.
We wait, buy female pink viagra without prescription. We grow a little hungry. I read up on aphasia and return to my e-book, all on my incredible little iPhone. Thank the deities of technology for the iPhone, order female pink viagra on internet. David dozes off. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, We wait. David awakens. I send him off to get himself dinner and pick me up some yogurts or parfaits or some such. Female pink viagra rx, I wait. Finally I get invited back to the treatment rooms. It's around 9:30 or 10 PM, buy female pink viagra without prescription.
I wait.
Patient advocate comes by. I request some sort of medical professional to actually come take a look at me, buy generic female pink viagra online.
I wait. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, David returns with noms.
I go nom-nom-nom upon the first of the yogurts. As if by magic, Female pink viagra discount, my eating appears to summon a nurse. She tells me I'm lined up for a head CT and some bloodwork.
We wait.
Nurse #2 comes by to collect me for the head CT around midnight, buy female pink viagra without prescription. I think. At this point we're half-asleep, cheapest female pink viagra price. Nurse #2 tells me to start "kicking up a fuss" if I haven't heard back from anyone on the results in about 40 minutes. I give them until 1 AM. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, I read my e-book.
It's 1 AM. Female pink viagra pharmacy online, I hit the page button. It lights up a bulb outside my curtain and I hear a beeping noise.
I wait.
I hit the page button again, buy female pink viagra without prescription. It doesn't refresh the beeping. I am sad, cheap female pink viagra no rx.
I eat the second thing of yogurt.
It's 1:10 AM. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, Nurse #3 comes by and I complain about the wait. I explain that I understand it takes a while to evaluate CTs, Lowest price for female pink viagra, that they have other patients to see, but that I am tired and scared and cranky, and by the way, why haven't they taken my blood. It's been an hour, female pink viagra buy drug. Also, as it's past midnight, the age on my ID wristband is now incorrect. Purchase female pink viagra without prescription, I am now 27 years old.
WARNING - discussion of needles and pain and blood, buy female pink viagra without prescription. Here there be squeamishness.
Nurse #3 starts gathering the implements of bloodletting. A bit of background - I last had blood drawn my senior year of high school, when I donated a pint, female pink viagra uk. It made me woozy and I ended up fainting halfway through Civics class - and not because of Mr. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, Snively's videos. I don't have a particular fear of needles, but blood draws don't play well with me. Female pink viagra online cheap, Nurse #3 goes for the left elbow. There's not a whole lot there, but he does get the needle in and has a hell of a time filling even one tube. I get lightheaded and gaspy and clammy, he wiggles the needle trying to get more blood, buy female pink viagra no rx, we come to a mutual agreement that this is Not Working Out So Well. We double-check the blood pressure and O2 saturation, and I relish the momentary respite for my blood vessels, buy female pink viagra without prescription.
He goes and gets Nurse #4. She inspects all arm joints for possible sites, Buy female pink viagra in canada, and settles on the right elbow. She then proceeds to cut off nearly all circulation to my arm while tapping the vein successfully with an IV/needle combo. The tourniquet is removed. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, She thinks about it and leaves the IV in, "just in case." I see the logic of this approach, as just getting a bit of blood out of my miserly veins is torment enough. We wait.
It's now about 2 AM, female pink viagra in malaysia. Nurse #3 pops in and asks if I'm diabetic, as the only thing they've found is a glucose spike. I point to the empty yogurt-and-fruit containers and say "remember how I was just finishing these up when you drew blood?" We explain that I am not a diabetic and have no history that would indicate such.
We .., buy female pink viagra without prescription. Cheap female pink viagra without prescription, wait for it ... wait.
It's 2:30. 27 years ago, give or take an hour for Daylight Savings, cheap female pink viagra tablet, I was born. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, I post something to this effect on Twitter, because what the hell else am I going to do at this hour to celebrate my birthday.
The heavens open up, the angels burst forth with fiery trumpets and flaming swords and various other fripperies ... Sale female pink viagra, for LO. The DOCTOR arriveth.
"When it comes to neurological events, good things come and go, bad things come and stay." This phrase is repeated by him about 3 times over the next 10 minutes, canadian female pink viagra.
He explains that my head CT is clean (Doc: "There was nothing there." Us: "Well, that explains a few things..." Doc: "No, I mean, no indications of an injury or stroke." Us: *amusingly disappointed*) and that the glucose spike corresponds to the yogurt snarfing, buy female pink viagra without prescription. No kidding. I ask if there were any other indications that should be checked out. He does some neuro field tests - checking muscle tone, Cheap female pink viagra in uk, visual tracking, etc. I'm normal. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, Nada, nothing, zip, zilch. Just some random aphasia. I ask if the dehydration (since I was thirsty) could be a cause, cheap female pink viagra on internet, he says "not in my experience, but who knows." He says it wasn't a stroke, wasn't a TIA, Female pink viagra non prescription, there are no remaining symptoms to examine, and that it's an "unexplained event." If it happens again, I'm to go find a neurologist and get my head examined again.
It's 3 AM. Nurse #3 takes the IV out, buying female pink viagra. I sign my release papers, which read "confusion" under Diagnosis, buy female pink viagra without prescription. We go home. I sleep.
It is now Saturday. David has awakened me, we head to our weekend haunt (Starr Pass, this awesome resort near Tucson where they have a lazy river and pool and water slide and wine-tasting and a spa...) for my requisite birthday pamperings. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, In the down time, I call Mom. We talk of many things ... birthdays, wedding planning, family gossip ... and eventually I mention that, oh, I went to the ER last night to get checked out, I think I was dehydrated. I expect Mom to Grow Concerned but there is a light note to her voice as she says this...
"Oh, I know I'm dehydrated when I start forgetting words, buy female pink viagra without prescription. I just drink a glass of water and I get right back to normal."
Afterward, in a later conversation, she agrees with me that I was right to go get checked out. It was scary. I hadn't experienced it before. David and I were both frightened. Buy female pink viagra without prescription, I don't know about you, but I like my brain. I like being able to use it to its fullest capacity by bantering and making puns and killing time on YouTube.
Aphasia is not a standard symptom of dehydration. Not totally unheard of, but not common at all. Yes, moderate dehydration can cause Confusion (in the clinical time/date/place sort of sense) but I have never seen Aphasia listed in the confusion set of symptoms. Evidently this is a family thing, buy female pink viagra without prescription.
If I had known this or heard it any time in the past, oh, let's say DECADE, I would not have panicked. I might still have gone to get checked out, but I would not have thought instantly "Stroke. 911!" I probably would have taken a calmer cataloging of my symptoms and paid closer attention to whether things were getting worse after I drank water. In fact, I would have been chugging more water as soon as I started stumbling over words - maybe even before. I wouldn't have become a sloppy un-drunk.
And we would have brought that bottle of wine to Nick's dinner party.
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