[ponyakr]

i started around the truck in front of me & thats the last thing i remember til about 30 min later when i woke up in the er of a nearby hospital. they began asking me what had happened. but i didn't know any more about it than they did. i told them what i just told you. at 1st they thought i was drunk or on drugs & had just lost control of the truck. so they wrapped the rubber strap around my arm & drew some blood to check for that. i finally convinced them that i hadn't had any brew or drugs since 1976. so they started testing everything they could test. now folks, this is the 1st time i've been in a hospital for anything more than a few stitches, or to remove a metal splinter i got in my eye from grinding on pontiac heads without eye protection. they did every kind of x-ray, mri, brain scan & other stuff i can't remember. well, they finally found the problem on the brain scan. a brain surgeon came in to explain it to me. i had a very small brain hemorage about 1/2 inch in dia. or smaller. it had caused what he called an electrical short, that caused me to black out. he called it a seizure. he said it was to deep to operate on, but said he'd seen lots of these & they usually dry up after awhile & you generally have no more problems with them. so, here's what had happened. when i blacked out the truck had gradually left the road, crossed the ditch, climbed up onto a railroad track & continued down the track for over 200 yards, if i remember correctly. they had to stop train traffic for a day or 2 while they repaired the track. i even made the monroe newspaper & the evening news on a local t.v. station. i was a little bruised & banged up so i had to stay in area hospitals for about 2 weeks.( $50,000+ worth) during this period of time, i had lots of free time with nothing to do but think.