Football and hospitals
Jul. 5th, 2009 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookaddict43I should say, for my American flisters, that when I say football - here in Queensland we mean Rugby League. We spent Friday and Saturday at a big football carnival. There were huge numbers of children there from all over the place - 56 teams this year. Apparently it's the biggest football carnival for kids in Australia. Our team did very well though they didn't make the finals. They won 5 games and drew 1 game and so did the team from our pool who made it to the finals. Since the other team drew with us and were the first to score, they went through & ours didn't.
Still all the kids got to be honour guard at the big NRL match that night and some from each team were to run in a relay at half time. While they were running I wa cheering, but not jumping up and down or anything - and suddenly I was hit with what felt like an explosion in my skull.
I've never felt anything like the throbbing that was shooting through me - I managed to tell one of the other mums and then ended up flat on the ground. Apparently, my friend tells me, I was burning up and the throbbing was getting worse so they called the ambulance. So I spent the night at the hospital getting CT scans, blood tests and goodness knows what else - and the doctor can't tell me what was wrong! They've given me notes and stuff to take to my GP and I'll go see him tomorrow. Though now, although I feel a bit woolly headed, I feel ok - but I scared myself and my friends and the poor little guy - so I'd better go :D The thing is I wasn't feeling sick or anything (just cold) and it was sooo unexpected. Of course I had, only a slight one thank god, a reaction to the medication the ambulance guys gave me - which didn't help either.
Thank god for the other parents & the football coach. One lot took the LG home with them, someone else drove my car home, they arranged for me to get the 130km home from the hospital - they were wonderful.
Still all the kids got to be honour guard at the big NRL match that night and some from each team were to run in a relay at half time. While they were running I wa cheering, but not jumping up and down or anything - and suddenly I was hit with what felt like an explosion in my skull.
I've never felt anything like the throbbing that was shooting through me - I managed to tell one of the other mums and then ended up flat on the ground. Apparently, my friend tells me, I was burning up and the throbbing was getting worse so they called the ambulance. So I spent the night at the hospital getting CT scans, blood tests and goodness knows what else - and the doctor can't tell me what was wrong! They've given me notes and stuff to take to my GP and I'll go see him tomorrow. Though now, although I feel a bit woolly headed, I feel ok - but I scared myself and my friends and the poor little guy - so I'd better go :D The thing is I wasn't feeling sick or anything (just cold) and it was sooo unexpected. Of course I had, only a slight one thank god, a reaction to the medication the ambulance guys gave me - which didn't help either.
Thank god for the other parents & the football coach. One lot took the LG home with them, someone else drove my car home, they arranged for me to get the 130km home from the hospital - they were wonderful.