jonoslack
Active member
Hi There . . . . Last Thursday I was sitting in my Office around 11.30pm in my nice Herman Miller chair:toocool: (with those armrests so carefully adjusted:thumbup. Anyway, inexcusably I dozed off for 10 or 15 minutes :sleep006:
When i woke up, my left hand didn't work . . . no pain, it just flapped like a cabbage leaf on the end of a stalk
I woke the boss, and so we rang NHS direct . . . who said to drive me straight to the nearest Accident & Emergency (16 miles), and that if I should feel sick or become 'unresponsive' then emma should call an ambulance to meet us :shocked::wtf:
Well, we got there at 1am, a sister saw me in less than 5 minutes, and told me that it was almost certainly not a stroke but 'wrist drop' caused by a trapped nerve :bugeyes: but we should wait and check with the doctor (3 hours). . . . . . we got home at 5am, very knackered :sleep006:
Now it's Monday, and I'm just beginning to get a (very little) movement in the left hand - it's probably going to be weeks before it's back to normal again (if you read internet sites it may never recover . . . if you listen to my doctor mates it may be just a day or so).
What did the damage was leaning all my weight on my elbows in my nice comfy chair.
The hand works okay upside down - so I can focus and take pictures, driving isn't too bad if it's strapped up, but touch typing is a nono (this is typed with my right hand touch typing and my left dabbing with a flaccid finger!)
So, all you late owls . . have a care, and don't go to sleep in your chair - especially after a nice supper and a couple of glasses of the good stuff!
Me? I'm just grateful that it wasn't that stroke!
all the best
When i woke up, my left hand didn't work . . . no pain, it just flapped like a cabbage leaf on the end of a stalk
I woke the boss, and so we rang NHS direct . . . who said to drive me straight to the nearest Accident & Emergency (16 miles), and that if I should feel sick or become 'unresponsive' then emma should call an ambulance to meet us :shocked::wtf:
Well, we got there at 1am, a sister saw me in less than 5 minutes, and told me that it was almost certainly not a stroke but 'wrist drop' caused by a trapped nerve :bugeyes: but we should wait and check with the doctor (3 hours). . . . . . we got home at 5am, very knackered :sleep006:
Now it's Monday, and I'm just beginning to get a (very little) movement in the left hand - it's probably going to be weeks before it's back to normal again (if you read internet sites it may never recover . . . if you listen to my doctor mates it may be just a day or so).
What did the damage was leaning all my weight on my elbows in my nice comfy chair.
The hand works okay upside down - so I can focus and take pictures, driving isn't too bad if it's strapped up, but touch typing is a nono (this is typed with my right hand touch typing and my left dabbing with a flaccid finger!)
So, all you late owls . . have a care, and don't go to sleep in your chair - especially after a nice supper and a couple of glasses of the good stuff!
Me? I'm just grateful that it wasn't that stroke!
all the best