Yeti
Black Belt
Well, last weekend was not one of my best. I ended up in the hospital on Thursday and got to stay there through Sunday afternoon. Late Thursday I felt really tired and very sick to my stomach. On the drive home from work, the muscles in my hands and wrists started to contract in on themselves until I couldn't hold the steering wheel any longer. I managed to call home and my wife called 911 and the rest is history. I luckily got full use and feeling in my hands back after about 3 or 4 hours. Man was that scary though!
It ended up I had a pretty nasty infection somewhere - the doctors think it was a viral infection - but they also saw a pretty severe drop in the potassium and calcium levels in my blood. So bad in fact that I had to drink a cup full of a potassium salt of some kind (and you thought the ocean was salty!). After a few days both levels returned to normal but the doctors still don't know what caused the drop. They do know that the low levels are likely the cause of my hands contracting, but other than that...
So...make sure you eat that extra banana and have that extra glass of milk every day! You never know!
It ended up I had a pretty nasty infection somewhere - the doctors think it was a viral infection - but they also saw a pretty severe drop in the potassium and calcium levels in my blood. So bad in fact that I had to drink a cup full of a potassium salt of some kind (and you thought the ocean was salty!). After a few days both levels returned to normal but the doctors still don't know what caused the drop. They do know that the low levels are likely the cause of my hands contracting, but other than that...
So...make sure you eat that extra banana and have that extra glass of milk every day! You never know!