I was visiting friends and family in December 2002 and I was at the final stop of a very long day. I was at my mother's next door neighbours house and sitting on the couch talking. On the fireplace surround where a lot of those fiber optic christmas decorations. WEll after about 40 minutes I started to feel very very strange. I was getting tunnel vision, my left arm and left side of my face was going numb and I felt that I was in a hole and people were talking to me from a great distance. Being out in the countryside we didn't call an ambulance but I was driven to hospital, went through A&E triage and was immeadiatly seen. They did the usual blood work, ekg, etc. A Doctor came in and said that he suspected it was one of three things: A heart attack, A stroke or meningitis. I was scared stiff that it was meningitis as I really hate needles and just knew that they were going to have to do a spinal tap. After about an hour, they came back and said that all of the tests look clear, I hadn't had a heart attack or a stroke and they didn't think it was meningitis. They decided to keep me in overnight just in case. The next morning, a new Doctor came in and said that I had probably had a very severe migraine and that I could go home. Well the head nurse decided that I could be discharged after lunch, so I got to enjoy Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve courtesy of the NHS.