A scary episode yesterday. I went down to the other side of the creek before breakfast. This is not totally unusual for me as I have never had to have breakfast before doing stuff before, but of course I am 40 kg less than I used to be so not as much reserves as I had before.
I did the usual things in the morning like doing pilates by myself for about 10 minutes, I just didn't have breaky before walking down to next door to do pilates with them again and then from there walked down to the other side of the creek to start on cleaning the fences from the flood.
Every post was pulled out, so I had to clean the debris on three wires and pull them back to where they should be and try and stand up the posts and push then down into the mud with just a a pair of pliers and reattach the wires.
The fences seemed really long and being born a redhead I try not to be out after 10am, as they say to stay out of the sun between 10am and 4pm in Summer, continually on the news, because of skin cancer, dehydration, etc.
I hadn't got half way when it was 10am and I have been out until 11am the last couple of days, but I felt I had had enough and would walk up. I didn't fell very strong and thought I would rather walk up through the paddock than go back along the road to home. However the creek was up so I couldn't get home that way without getting wet.
So I sighed and started the long walk home along the road. I had only been walking 10 minutes when I came along my neighbour who was cleaning the debris fromt he flood off her fence and stopped for a natter.
I was wearing jeans, gumboots, a long sleeved t-shirtm and a hat. The long sleeves because the first day I manged to get sunburnt and wind burnt. Not to mention insect bites and thorns in my fingers!!!! While I was doing the fence I was also wearing gloves.
I was talking to her for a few minutes. Me on one side of the fence and her on the other. I had my hands on the wire. The first thing that happened was my hearing went a bit tinny. Then my eyesight went funny and then blackness and I couldn't see anything.
I was still carrying on a conversation as I was still conscious when she asked what was wrong. Apparently I was staring so my eyes were open but I couldn't see and I was starting to lean forward on the fence and she was afraid I was going to fall, so she told me to sit down.
As soon as I sat down I started to see grey scale and then the colour came back and I could see again.
I felt fine, but she wouldn't let me walk home and rang her husband to come and get me.
He drove me home and I felt fine and had something to eat, but did fall asleep and slept a long time. I was going into town and I was surprised to see the time was a quarter to five, so I went into Town to see my Dr.
He had just finished his last patient and the receptionist asked him if I was in a hurry, he told me to go in and sit down.
He said he wasn't too worried. It is probably not a brain tumor as I still wouldn't be able to see. Probably a mini stroke that has righted itself, but I am going into Ipswich on Monday to get a CT Head Scan just to rule things out. He said my blood pressure was up but that was because of me worrying about what it could be, and all my other blood pressure tests in my file had been okay.
I have felt fine today. I made sure I had breakfast first and the fences didn't look long this morning at all. I did the rest of the fence on that side, which was longer than what I did yesterday, and it was then 10am. I felt I could keep going on the next fence, but came back home just to be sensible. I also drove the car down and back instead of walking.
Oh and argh at walking into the garage door this morning because I went in to replenish my insulator supply and wearing a hat I didn't see that I hadn't opened the garage door high enough to walk out without ducking!!!!
