I had an awful weekend, I became really ill and got taken to hospital due to complications from my previous stroke. So it has really helped a lot to come online and find that my food aid request has been answered. Thank you so much, that’s one less thing I need to worry about for the time being.

I became ill on Saturday night and developed a terrible pain all down my left arm and into my back and neck. Painkillers didn’t help and I was having trouble breathing, my heart was racing. Eventually the pain got so unbearable I called the NHS non-emergency number for advice and they sent an ambulance. I got carted off to hospital at like 3.45am and had three ECGs, two sets of blood tests and various examinations. My oxygen was worryingly low and my heart rate was far too high. The pain was so severe I was given multiple doses of morphine and eventually had an allergic reaction to the morphine. The reaction was treated and eventually they diagnosed the problem, it was being caused by nerves in my neck and was a complication from my previous stroke. I finally got discharged at 11am, went home and slept all Sunday.

A stroke really is the gift that keeps on giving! I didn’t even know you could have such terrible and sudden problems from a stroke you’d had several years previously. And now morphine is off the table in future.

The only bright spot in my weekend is that I came online to find my food aid request had been answered, so at least that’s one worry off my plate.