Southend and last weeks trip in an ambulance

I'm delivering training for a couple of days in Southend, this evening after training I walked along the sea front and took these pictures of the sun set. They are in reverse order here though!
I really wish I had my proper camera with me but i had to make do with my iPhone.
It's been a funny week really. This time last week I had just been released from A&E. Last Tuesday started out pretty average. I had a bit of a head ache and felt a bit sick after being on the train to London but it wasn't any big deal. I arrived at my meeting with the Met Police at 10:00 the meeting lasted an hour and a quarter. It was just a final evaluation meeting, noting stressful, very easy. My headache was growing worse and I began to feel nauseas so I popped into a cafe near the MPS office in Earls Court. I ordered mint tea and a breakfast. I ate some toast and egg but felt a lot worse.

I decided I needed fresh air so got up but as I walked towards the door I felt a lot worse. Outside I just felt even worse, I couldn't see properly, my head was swimming, I wanted to lie down, my face felt numb, my hands were tingling, I couldn't breath. I tried to call Jason but could hardly speak to him. I felt I would collapse any minute. I told him I'd call an ambulance. I sat on a chair outside the cafe and everything went black. The next thing I can remember I was slumped across the table. I felt like I was going to pass out again and I still couldn't see so I called an ambulance.

I don't know why I didn't ask for help, nobody asked me if I was ok and I must have looked a complete state sprawled out on the table. But hey its London weird stuff happens. I'm sure if I'd collapsed on the floor it would have been different.

The ambulance arrived and I didn't even notice, I was so out of it. The crew were fantastic, they got me on to the ambulance and to sit down. They took my blood pressure which was on the low side so they got me to lie down. within a few minutes of lying down it began to rise ever so slightly. I've never been in an ambulance before. I wish I could remember more of it but I don't, I was so out of it.

At the hospital I remember they said I was the "flat lady" who had to be kept flat. The paramedic assured me that they hadn't said the "fat lady!" I ended up at Kensington and Westminster hospital on Fulham Road. The nurses and Drs were great. I had loads of tests even one of those ECG heart things. Everything seemed normal apart from my blood pressure being on the low side but they then got my blood tests which suggested I had an infection of some kind because my white blood count was up. (though that could have been caused by the stress of fainting.) So after 5 hours I was allowed to go home but had to report to my GP for further tests re my blood pressure and blood work.

Consensus from Drs at hospital and GP is that it is some kind of virus but I have to have further blood tests on Thursday just to make sure. As I have been feeling faint, dizzy, achey and exhausted for about a week. Today I have felt a lot better which is brilliant so I'm really hoping it was just a virus that's clearing up now. I had been feeling pretty run down since February so maybe this was all just because I was a bit run down.