the morning of July 21, Daniel kissed me before going to work and I asked, worried, if you were okay. Sure, I replied still half asleep. It was 0430, my alarm would play only two and a half hours later and did not want to miss a minute of sleep.
But not all was well.
Around 0630 I got up to pee, or rather, I tried to do it, but my legs did not want to learn to get out of bed, my hips could not turn allowing me to put my feet on the ground.
My muscles had simply stopped responding to any command.
I thought again that it was an exaggeration of my mind and started to take a sip from the glass of water I always keep on the nightstand. Extend your hand to complete this banal gesture was almost impossible, his arms were completely numb and I felt heavy unsustainably.
arrived after several attempts by the glass, he approached the edge of the lips and sent him down. I immediately noticed two things:
- which caused me pain swallowing;
- that, above all, I had not swallowed at all, given that water I had left the nose.
At that point I became convinced that it would be better to call an ambulance and take me to the emergency room but or live in a two-storey house and my room is on the bottom: if I could get out of bed, it would be impossible taking the stairs and open the door for the paramedics. So I phoned my parents who live in 10 minutes and that for any eventuality, have copies of house keys. The event usually consists of taking Emma (my labrador) and take you for a stroll when Daniel and I have the same turn, but this time was a bit more serious.
too alarmed, however, I did not want my mother, my intention was to say that I do not I felt too good and that might have been the case to take me to hospital.
But the voice that came out I was not my usual voice. It was mixed, fatigue, nasal. I realized that I had difficulty speaking and noticed my mother.
My parents arrived shortly thereafter, my father quickly realized my condition and took me in his arms on the top floor where I laid her on the couch waiting for the ambulance, which arrived a few minutes later.
The ambulance driver was an acquaintance of mine, a gentleman of about fifty, who had lost his daughter in twenty-two a car accident. She went with her to crash into a tree Smart, in a vain attempt to avoid one that had not stopped at the stop sign.
Ironically, f u him to intervene on the spot.
I lay down on the stretcher, I opened a path (a technical term to say that I slipped a needle into a vein), and departed. It was about 0745 and to avoid the rush hour traffic turned on the siren. I remember thinking that from inside the sound was much less annoying than outside.
the ER was immediately requested a neurological consultation and the specialist who saw me after have found that my tendon reflexes were almost absent and did an interview with me where I confirmed that I had an intestinal flu a couple of weeks before, I diagnosed Myasthenia Gravis and prescribed infusions of immunoglobulin, five infusions per day for five days.
however not convinced that I had the tingling in the arms.
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