Friday @ April 24th,2009 – 8 hrs of my memory being wiped out!

What supposedly to be a normal enjoyable Friday, April 24th turn out to be the opposite. It’s the day I had a bad Vertigo (in my case, it’s my middle ear) attack and I fainted at Kedai Mesra, Petronas, Bukit Antarabangsa. Thanks God for the kind and caring strangers (which at least give me hope for the future) that called a doctor, an ambulance and somehow managed to contact my family members.

Due to the fall, I suffered a hair-line crack at the base of my left skull, hospitalised for a week and on medical leave until May 18th. Fainted at around 1.30pm and by the time I fully regained conscious it was 8.30pm, in SJMC! Up until now I’m still trying to fix the jig-saw puzzle in my head. My neuro-surgeon, Dr Ben of SJMC said this is common in head injury, time heals everything – crack as well as memory.

Vertigo, or dizziness, is a symptom, not a disease. The term vertigo refers to the sensation of spinning or whirling that occurs as a result of a disturbance in balance (equilibrium). It’s the feeling that the surrounding is moving or spinning or sometimes known as illusion of movement. There are 2 types of Vertigo, subjective and objective. Subjective vertigo is when we feel ourselves are moving while objective vertigo is when the perception of the environments are moving. Mine was objective vertigo.

Hopefully by next week or so I should be running about doing my normal things.