The reason why stinks but at least I'm going to be OK. Turns out I have a big aneurism on an artery at the base of my brain...
On Monday, I was getting ready to head out to photograph a property for sale when I almost blacked out. I got real dizzy and had to lay down. I then started to sweat like crazy even though I was cold. This happened a couple more times within a half hour. I got real dizzy, kept falling over to the right, my speech became slurred, and I had incredible pain behind my right eye. Needless to say, my wife immediately drove me to the emergency room at our nearby hospital.
After a few tests, they put me in a care flight helicopter and sent me down to a bigger hospital in Reno, Nevada. I've been here since, and today I'll be undergoing a procedure to put a stint ( like a small pipe) through the aneurism which should solve the problem.
I'm pretty high right now on fentanyl so hopefully this post makes sense. Normally I wouldn't appreciate the massive amount of different pharmaceuticals I've been given, but it's funny how when you feel like you're dying, you throw up the white flag, surrender, and say give me whatever you got...
Hopefully you all are having a better week than me. Cheers to better days ahead!