For the fifth year running I'm going to be the commissioner for a free fantasy football league. Free means totally free, no cost at all to play. There's also no money for winning either, just bragging rights.
The 2009 League of Champions is registered and ready for sign up. We had ten teams in the league last year and had a great time with it. It's a private league in that it's not open to just whoever might come along to sign up. I'd like to keep to folks I know or who are one step away (who know someone I know).
If you've never tried fantasy football and wondered what it is all about this league would be a good way to start learning.
If you'd like to participate just drop me an email or post a comment here on the blog and identify yourself and I'll get you the information you need to get signed up.
Let me give a shout out to last years league champions the Kennedy Stallions! And how about for the second straight year the l;eague runner up was the BamaBackers.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Update 2: Record of My May 31 - June 1 Experience
I saw the doctor on Friday and he confirmed that all the test showed good results. He believes that a spike in my blood pressure was to blame for the experience. He gave me the all clear until the end of the year when I'll have my annual physical.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Update: Record of My May 31 - June 1 Experience
I got the final results from the tests and everything did check out normal. No problems with the heart or arteries found at all.
I have a follow up appointment Friday with my doctor and we will discuss what the cause of the symptoms I experienced might have been.
I have a follow up appointment Friday with my doctor and we will discuss what the cause of the symptoms I experienced might have been.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Record of My May 31 - June 1 Experience
Let me say a very BIG THANK YOU to those that have been concerned and that have been praying for me the last couple of days. I wanted to create a record of exactly what happened to me on Sunday May 31 and Monday June 1. It kind of went through the communication channels and by the time it got back to me it was quite different than what really happened.
My wife and I were at the grocery store on Sunday afternoon when I got a sudden throbbing headache on the back left side of my head. I became very dizzy and nausea set in as well. I had pain in my left shoulder and down my left arm. I had no chest pain at all. I braced myself on the handle of the grocery cart with it up against one of the produce stands. I didn't pass out and I didn't fall down. I just stood there and after a couple of minutes the headache went away and the dizziness got better. We finished getting what we needed and left. I still felt kind of washed out and a little disoriented. We went home and I began to do a little reading about the symptoms that I had experienced and found a few cases that described exactly what I had felt. A couple of the cases were people that had had heart attacks and one was someone that had had a stroke. I decided to err on the side of caution and go and get it checked out.
My mom just happened to be visiting us so she got to be along for the ride and the journey we took the next 24 or so hours.
We went to the ER and I was registered and taken back pretty quick. They immediately did blood work, a cat scan (because of the throbbing headache that I had experienced) and a chest x-ray. Everything looked normal. No signs of a blood clot or tumor in the area of the headache and no abnormalities showed up on the chest x-ray. After they called and talked with my doctor they decided I should stay the night for observation and that I would have further tests the next morning.
After a near sleepless night (due to someone coming in and doing something to me every few minutes it seemed) morning came. Our doctor came in around 6:30 AM and discussed everything with me. He said all looked good no problems had shown up. He said as long as the test this morning is ok you can go home today. They took me around 7:30 AM for a graded exercise stress test (Nuclear GXT). They injected radioactive fluid into my blood stream and then took pictures for about 20 minutes. I then got on a treadmill and walked until my heart rate reached a targeted rate and then injected more radioactive fluid into my veins. I then walked about another minute and a half and then the exercise test was over. The EKG part of the test showed no problems at all. I waited about 30 minutes and then they took more pictures and I returned to the room.
From that point I just waited...and waited...and waited...and waited. At 3:30 PM I asked the nurses to call my doctor as head had requested that I do that if I hadn't heard anything from the test by 3 PM. They did and we waited some more and waited and waited. Finally at 6 PM they came and said the doctor had said I could go home but that they still didn't have the final results from the Nuclear GXT test. The doctor assured me that he expected everything to be normal but that they would contact me on Tuesday with the results.
That's where we are now. I feel fine. I did not have severe chest pains. I did not have a heart attack. I did not pass out or faint. We do not know conclusively what caused the symptoms I experienced but we do know a couple of things that it was not. It wasn't a heart attack and it wasn't a stroke or a tumor related.
I am back at work on Tuesday and will post here when I get results from the last test.
My wife and I were at the grocery store on Sunday afternoon when I got a sudden throbbing headache on the back left side of my head. I became very dizzy and nausea set in as well. I had pain in my left shoulder and down my left arm. I had no chest pain at all. I braced myself on the handle of the grocery cart with it up against one of the produce stands. I didn't pass out and I didn't fall down. I just stood there and after a couple of minutes the headache went away and the dizziness got better. We finished getting what we needed and left. I still felt kind of washed out and a little disoriented. We went home and I began to do a little reading about the symptoms that I had experienced and found a few cases that described exactly what I had felt. A couple of the cases were people that had had heart attacks and one was someone that had had a stroke. I decided to err on the side of caution and go and get it checked out.
My mom just happened to be visiting us so she got to be along for the ride and the journey we took the next 24 or so hours.
We went to the ER and I was registered and taken back pretty quick. They immediately did blood work, a cat scan (because of the throbbing headache that I had experienced) and a chest x-ray. Everything looked normal. No signs of a blood clot or tumor in the area of the headache and no abnormalities showed up on the chest x-ray. After they called and talked with my doctor they decided I should stay the night for observation and that I would have further tests the next morning.
After a near sleepless night (due to someone coming in and doing something to me every few minutes it seemed) morning came. Our doctor came in around 6:30 AM and discussed everything with me. He said all looked good no problems had shown up. He said as long as the test this morning is ok you can go home today. They took me around 7:30 AM for a graded exercise stress test (Nuclear GXT). They injected radioactive fluid into my blood stream and then took pictures for about 20 minutes. I then got on a treadmill and walked until my heart rate reached a targeted rate and then injected more radioactive fluid into my veins. I then walked about another minute and a half and then the exercise test was over. The EKG part of the test showed no problems at all. I waited about 30 minutes and then they took more pictures and I returned to the room.
From that point I just waited...and waited...and waited...and waited. At 3:30 PM I asked the nurses to call my doctor as head had requested that I do that if I hadn't heard anything from the test by 3 PM. They did and we waited some more and waited and waited. Finally at 6 PM they came and said the doctor had said I could go home but that they still didn't have the final results from the Nuclear GXT test. The doctor assured me that he expected everything to be normal but that they would contact me on Tuesday with the results.
That's where we are now. I feel fine. I did not have severe chest pains. I did not have a heart attack. I did not pass out or faint. We do not know conclusively what caused the symptoms I experienced but we do know a couple of things that it was not. It wasn't a heart attack and it wasn't a stroke or a tumor related.
I am back at work on Tuesday and will post here when I get results from the last test.
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