Postby MomentOfInertia » Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:12 am
IC Keith:
It started a few weeks ago, on a Saturday, horrible headaches every hour on the hour all day; like some little gremlin decided to build a clock tower in my head.
I stayed home and slept it off, woke up fine on Sunday, same for Monday too. Tuesday they were back, and I was starting to see thing durring the headaches too, I called in sick and went to bed. Friday I went to see one of the docs at the hospital, got passed around by a bunch of people who had no idea what they were dealing with, wound up getting my head scanned. That didn't go well....
I came in between headaches, got halfway through the scan before one of them hit, the machine stated buzzing, popped, and shut off. The doc said she'd seen nothing unusual until right before the machine shut itself off when she'd gotten some very strange readings.
She said it shut itself off, but I think the room smelled like something burned out...
So, nasty hourly headaches with hallucinations every third day and nobody can tell me why, a big hospital in New York city and nobody knows anything!
A few days after that I had a long talk with my supervisor, now I'm working a desk job every third day, helping out around the office, paperwork, covering the dispatch guy so he can take a break now and then, etc.
After about a week of that dispatch went of 'vacation', something about a death in the family, be gone almost a week, he left four days ago and I've been doing dispatch duty full-time while he's gone.
So now here I am on a -headache riddled- third day, working dispatch, an earthquake just hit and I've got maybe ten minutes to get everybody organized before I go down again.