I had to pick Bob up from the airport at 1:30 am Friday night/Saturday morning. We got home and settled in around 2:30ish. I couldn't get to sleep and wasn't feeling great. So, I decided a bathroom trip might help for some reason around 3:30 or so.

Sitting on toilet, doubled over thinking 'I don't feel so good'. That was all the warning I got - I woke up on floor. Apparently I passed out while sitting on the freaking toilet - took a face plant into the wall/floor (not sure exactly what happened). Actually started dreaming and felt uncomfortable from having my neck wrenched. I started to move to get more comfortable not realizing where I was. Very confused why the bed was so hard and I had no pillow.

Realized I was on the floor. I tried to push myself up & my butt bumped against the toilet. It started to crystalize what happened but I just got up & went to bed.

DH comes to wake me up and sees a goose egg above my left eye and a huge scrape from just above my right eyebrow extending into my hairline. Oh, it's beautiful!

I am easy to pass out, so we don't think much about it. But, I'm too dizzy to get up before noon. Actually, before 1 pm. We justified it since I really didn't get to sleep until 4 am or so.

We go to eat & I'm feeling good, no problem at all. We leave & about 1/3 of the way across the parking lot, suddenly, I can't walk straight. I am listing to the left. DH has to help me walk to the vehicle. I felt no weakness, just felt like I'd been spinning in a circle and then trying to walk straight right after spinning, you know?

It freaks us out & we go to ER. I get a CT & a CT with contrast.

Good news: The carotid and vertebral arteries are widely patent without evidence of stenosis or dissection.

Yay!

Weird news: Tiny left thyroid cysts or nodules suggesting minimal changes of goiter.

What? I have a goiter? Man alive.

In the end, the ER doctor said that the disturbed gait may have been from the head bump.

Anyway - all is well. I may have a little vertigo, but that is nothing new for me. I follow up with my regular doctor tomorrow morning. I have a slightly swollen forehead (I look very Cro-magnon) and a scrape that is healing well.