One of my bridesmaids called me last night and told me that she'd spent all weekend undergoing tests at the hospital.
Apparently she was driving home from her job on Thursday when her left arm suddenly went heavy and numb. She was able to get home safely, but the numbness began to spread so her neighbor called 911. Then, while she was in the ambulance en route to the hospital, the numbness took over her entire left side and she lost the ability to speak. They thought it was a stroke.
Thankfully, they've run a CT scan, an MRI and a full work-up of her heart, and they couldn't find any evidence of a stroke, heart attack, aneurysm, blood clot, clogged artery, etc. But they have no answer as to what happened to her.
She goes in for more bloodwork today, then she has an appointment with a neurologist. In the meantime, since she continues to have random bouts of numbness and she becomes physically exhausted very easily (she's sleeping at least an extra six hours each day now, and she can't even walk her son to his school a couple of blocks away without being wiped out), she's been taken off work for the week.
Good thoughts for her would be appreciated. Hopefully they'll just tell her that it was a bad migraine with lingering side effects, or that she pinched a nerve or something without knowing it, and that it's not a big deal.