3 months ago on 13th June I had a sudden seizure and collapse in my kitchen at home in front of my wife and 12yr old daughter, i smacked my head into the tiled floor and gave myself a 3 inch gash in back of head, wife obviously called for ambulance who arrived within 10 mins and were excellent. CT scan at hospital showed an acute subdural haematoma and initially i was diagnosed with epilepsy
Spent a few days in hospital and after another couple of head CT's was judged that the bleed was stable and had stopped...Off sick from school obviously and all seemed well until I developed symptoms that were flu/covid like so took a covid test and it was negative, had a mild right sided headache during that time and just took paracetamol, then things got interesting......
On Mon 14th / Tues 15th Aug i suddenly developed slurred speech and an increasingly lack of coordination on left side of body so went back to hospital on 15th, immediately re-admitted and another CT showed haemorrhage hadn't stopped and was now 2x it's original size and depth, hospital want me immediately transferred to Southmead in Bristol for emergency surgery but they want hospital to slowly reverse my heart meds before transfer...
Friday 18th I have further seizures in early hours of morning giving hospital no choice but to prep me for transfer by sedating and intubating me - Southmead send specialist paramedics and ambulance and I get transferred at around 12pm and am operated on at 3.30pm - I don't fully regain consciousness until Sun 20th!
Point being - don't ignore a headache that lasts for several days and especially if it then suddenly becomes a weakness on the *opposite* side of your body from the headache - you could then hopefully avoid what happened to me....
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