article_snippet: I started to feel strange and went to the nurse's office in my building to ask for help.
article_snippet: My speech began to slur, my hands were tingling, and my head was pounding.
article_snippet: the nurse thought I could be having a stroke and called an ambulance.
article_snippet: Within an hour, I went from thinking I might have a migraine because I needed new glasses to being rushed to the hospital.
article_snippet: They stripped off my clothes in the emergency room to hook me up to the machines that would reveal I wasn't having a stroke.
article_snippet: About 6 a.m., I was asleep when a resident came into the emergency room and woke me up.
article_snippet: It was the most afraid I've ever been in my life.
article_snippet: Once I was on the operating table with the IV in, the anesthesiologist started the magic medicine, and I barely started to count before I was knocked out.
article_snippet: I spent five days in the hospital, mostly sleeping from the magic medicine.