To ask WTH happened to me?

[LeukaeLucky]

Hi mumsnetters
The weirdest thing happened to me last night and I'm hoping to get some reassurance or guidance on what it could be.
So I'm about to go to bed but realise I have forgotten to take the clothes from the washing machine out.
I'm getting to the kitchen and my legs start feeling really heavy like I'm about to faint. I decide to not take any risk and lie down on the kitchen floor. My whole body feels heavy. I call my oldest daughter (14) to help me stand. I try to get up but I literally feel like I'm weighing 200 tonnes
Even talking feels difficult
She encourages me to sit but my left side feels even heavier than the rest of my body so every time I manage to sit I fall down on my left side. I end up soiling myself and somehow manage to stand and shower. I then go to the toilet and bang my head on the sink my entire body weight seems to be going toward my left
I ended up managing to go to bed with the help of my oldest child but I'm freaking out. What was that? Why couldn't I lift my body up? Shall I see a gp tomorrow?
TiA

The symptoms could be a fit, stroke, tia, faint any of a dozen things but the fact you were incontinent is a huge red flag
The 14 year old who doesn't know about 999 is a whole other level of weirdness

I don’t believe that a 14 year old doesn’t know how to call an ambulance - unless she’s home schooled and never has any contact with the outside world.

In English schools children get taught how to call for emergency help in infant school!

Umm, WTAF? Your 14 year old daughter doesn't know to call 999 for an ambulance?

Hope all is ok op.

As an aside it isn't helpful for sneery comments about a 14 year old not knowing how to call an ambulance.

She was likely scared of what was happening and what might happen if she did - maybe lay off the op and her dd? It sounds like there were other younger children in the house too but no other adult so it's quite likely at 14 she would have felt quite scared and unsure what to do. How many adults lost here asking whether to call 999 or 111. ? Leave off . It's just nasty.

Reality check of the day - does everyone in your house know how to ring emergency service ?

If you don't have a tv that isn't necessarily a bad thing but there is clearly important life skills she hasn't learnt. I would get one. God knows what other basic skills she doesn't know.

She's never read a newspaper, heard reference to 999 on the radio (news/drama), never read a book in which it's mentioned, never heard a friend/teacher mention it? None of those?

Hope your health is OK, but there is something severely awry here if you are truly asserting that your 14 year old (assuming no SEN) isn't aware of how to access emergency services.

Hope you’re ok OP

I very much hope you're ok and it's just a migraine described by a pp. But that must have been so scary... And I hope you've realised why your children need to know these things because one day it might be something immediately life threatening and you will need their help.

Yeah I’m unconvinced too. Firstly, who would not have gone straight to A&E with those symptoms last night and then the 14 year old thing is just bizarre.

If it’s genuine then I hope you’re ok OP and please teach your daughter some life skills, for her own sake

Does she know any basic first aid? I'm not talking saving someone who's just lost a leg but just what to do if mum loses consciousness, what to do if mum is bleeding badly etc. Take some time at the weekend to start teaching these things!

Hope everything is ok, second thread I’ve seen about people having unusual symptoms! A&E was the right call

@hellenbackagen

With one adult and multiple children, it's even more important that the older ones know how to call for help.

She's 14! In 2 years she could get married! She should know how to call for help. It's quite shocking and thats why posters are picking up on it as a major deal.

Definitely a reality check I'm alone with my children and never taught them.
The comments about my daughter are making me smile. No SEN just never taught her. We don't listen to the radio apart from music in the car she's arrived in England when she was 5 so we might have missed the bit when they are taught how to call 999. Incidentally my younger 2 born in this country never mentioned 999 but they will happily talk about Emily Pankhurst and the 1666 great fire of London ( around the time I was probably born according to DS) anyway I've learned a lesson and will definitely act on it as soon as I get home

So your 14 needs life skills fast.

Does she attend any youth clubs etc. I was a qualified lifeguard at her age. I just checked and my seven year old knows about 999.

It generally taught every year in some form or another.

She should know how to call 999, how to stop a cut bleeding, how to drop and roll if she or someone else catches fire, how to get out of your house in a fire, how to change a lightbulb, how to boil an egg, the list is pretty long of basic life skills.

But 999 is at the top

So if you asked your daughter "Have you ever heard of dialling 999?" she'd say "No"?

I feel this is an appropriate place to mention the FAST acronym.

FAST is an acronym used as a mnemonic to help detect and enhance responsiveness to the needs of a person having a stroke. The acronym stands for :

Facial drooping: A section of the face, usually only on one side, that is drooping and hard to move. This can be recognized by a crooked smile.
Arm weakness: The inability to raise one's arm fully
Speech difficulties: An inability or difficulty to understand or produce speech
Time: If any of the symptoms above are showing, time is of the essence; call the emergency services or go to the hospital.

Time is of the essence in strokes. The faster they are treated the lower the likelihood of permanent impairment.