Well, I got up in the morning and I was feeling OK… and my daughter phones me every morning of course and she phoned but I'd, I got up, been to the toilet, put my dentures in, came through, put the kettle on and I was fine. And then my daughter phoned, I answered the phone, she said, “Are you feeling OK the day, mum?” I said, “Yeah.” She said, “Your voice isn't right.” I said, “Well, I feel OK”. She said, “Have you got your dentures in?” I said, “Yeah”. I said, “Yeah”. She said, “Mum, there is something wrong with you, your voice is just not right at all” so that was all I knew… but oh I forgot to tell you this. I have a chain on my door, which I always put on my door. Anyway, my daughter phoned my son and he came right down and on the, his road down, he phoned the ambulance to come and he was only two minutes in but he came to the door and at that time, they didn't all have keys… so , he buzzed of course and I let him in, came up and I tried with my left hand to open, I opened the door, the lock with the right hand, tried to get the thing out, the chain off, just couldn't, couldn't use this hand at all and by that time, he thought, I started crying and I'm saying, “Oh, there is something wrong here”, you know, but he said, “Mum, can you not open the door?” I said, “No, it's just the chain”. He said, “Well, just take your time”. I said, “OK”.
So then of course the door was open but I managed with this hand but no way was I ever going to get the chain off. So, and of course, by the time I came through here, and I felt this was a bitty different and I looked in the mirror and I saw and of course he told me that the ambulance was coming and I said, “Well, I'm not going any place”. He said, “You're going to the hospital mum, there's something far wrong with you” and whenever the ambulance man came in, he said what was my name and that, [my son] said, “[Mum]”, ken. “Mum, [Mum]” and he said, “Well, Mum” and he said to the other, “You'll have to go down the stair and get a chair”. I said, “What for?” I said, “I'm not going any place, I'm fine.” He said, “No you're not, I think you've had a stroke” and then of course the tears came and all the rest of it but they were really awfully good, you know. But it was going down the stair, I was like in a push, a push chair like a baby [laughs] but anyway… I still, in my mind, I felt OK but in the ambulance, I felt there was something here, you know, that just wasn't, because this side, there was not a thing but then that was because the nurse said, “Well, that was because there was nothing here”, you know. |
