I’ve had trouble sleeping the last two nights. It’s now Thursday evening. Today I drove to Fayetteville AR for a CT scan of my head. This was to follow up on my Sept 3 stroke. I wasn’t expecting good news from this, as I’ve struggled against continuing impairments to speech and left hand fine movement (giving me problems with handwriting and typing,

From the 1;30 p.m. CT scan, which ended early since I got there early, I rushed back to Bella Vista to attend the bi-monthly meeting of the Scribblers & Scribes writers critique group. As I was walking out of the Bella Vista Library at the end of our meeting, I was a little dizzy; nothing major, but a little more sustained than, say, from standing after a long time sitting. I got to the car and sat a while until the dizziness passed, which it did after a minute or two.

From there I went to a nearby grocery store for a couple of things. Pulling into the parking space, I tapped the cart corral with my right front of the car—no damage that I could see. I got through the store okay, bought the couple of items on my list, and drove home. The dizziness did not return.

As I drove into our garage, my cellphone rang. It was the nurse practitioner from the neurology clinic with the results of the scan. The blood clot from September has “resolved” itself—meaning it has disappeared! So that was good news.

Here at home, I’m barely functioning due to tiredness. I had plans to read and write this evening, but there’s no way I can accomplish that. One thing I was going to write was a follow up post for the blog. But that’s not possible tonight.

Maybe tonight will be better for sleep and I’ll be able to finish a chapter in my book tomorrow. Hope so.