What The Heck Just Happend To Me? Part 1

 


It’s August 7th, 2021 and another busy schedule is on deck.  The day begins with a neighbourhood yard sale.  Though not to my success liking, it gives me the chance to speak to different people, face-to-face, something I love to do.  I possess a social personality, I yield satisfaction from interacting with other people, and, many times, physical closeness as well.  Turns out social people not only enjoy people but they tend to like to be helpful as well.  This I-STYLE personality should have my picture next to the dictionary definition, just saying.  So my day didn’t stop there, next on deck was a trip to Brampton to visit a mutual friend who just brought a beautiful princess into the world followed by a house warming gathering, which I’m not gonna lie seemed like a boring drag but allowed me to be refreshed within the backyard pool.  My last stop was to visit yet another friend who sadly just lost his father.  There was no way I would be able to make the funeral due to scheduling so the least I could do was visit him before leaving Brampton.  So now its time to wrap up the day and make arrangements to head back to Niagara.  I walk out my friend’s front door and head to my car which is parked just across the street at the bottom of his driveway, and sadly that was all I remembered.  I next wake up sitting on the street, look down and am saturated in my own blood.  I look up and am surrounded by at least ten plus strangers and hear one of them say “I’m a nurse, and the ambulance is already on the way”.  I am in total shock, what just happened I think.  In the dead midst of Covid I need to make the hospital trip solo, leaving my two children behind.  After a rough night at Brampton Civic Hospital and a plethora of tests; CT Scans, Chest X-Rays, Bloodwork and Heart Tests, I’m told nothing is wrong with Me.  So why am I laying there with a stitched two inch gash under my bottom lip, severe left jaw pain, and a bruised right rib cage?  The ER Doctor tells me his diagnosis is simply dehydration, but because he cannot pinpoint the issue exactly he has needed to contact the Ministry of Transportation and I now find out my Drivers License is temporarily suspended pending further medical review.  I’m discharged and slowly make my way back to Niagara-On-The-Lake, my home to follow up with my Family Doctor…

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