Its not a tumor!!!
well what the hell... this has been a rather interesting month i should say...
here is the story..
Once upon a time on feb 18th 2006 I went and saw rocky horror picture show with my good friend we had a beer and a good time but i started not feeling well so i got him to take me home. Next morning i wake up Sunday Feb. 19th 2006 feeling like supreme shit. I had only had one beer i shouldnt have been feeling this way. i wasnt hung over it was weirder than that.
So i decided to go get myself a glass of water as i was feeling dizzy and light headed and was trying to remedy the situation. Upon arrival in the kitchen everything in my vision shifted to the left, i had wicked vertigo, my legs stopped working the way they should and i collapsed on the kitchen floor.
I was promptly scooped off the floor and taken to emergancy where i waited.
5 hours later i was admited. The ER doctor did a bunch of tests he thought I may have had an aneurism.. i went up for a CAT scan. they were looking for some sort of tumor because i had a wicked bad headache..
it came back normal.
He then decided to do a lumbar puncture (which is a nice way of saying spinal tap, which is in turn a nice way of saying "we are gonna shove a 4 inch long needle into your spine and take out some fluid" ) so that test made sure i didnt have an aneurism...
also, the spinal tap didnt hurt as bad as everyone says! it was sorta uncomfortable but totally tolerable. extream body peircing or somthing. i have had other thing happen to me that hurt worse... like stepping on a nail.. that hurts waaaaay worse than the spinal tap.. get one! everyone is doing it.. you want to be cool dont you?
Anyway....
"I believe you have viral meningitus"
"oh shit"
"its not the life threating kind"
"can other people get it from me?"
"its not contagious"
"how did i get it then?"
"i dont know"
"how long will it last?"
"i dont know"
"why do i have vertigo"
"i dont know"
"oh... great"
"no work or driving until this gets sorted out"
"...."
So then he sends me to a neurologist who beat on me with hammers they he had no idea what was wrong (by this time i couldnt really walk without falling over as my legs wouldnt work) so he sent me to another neurologist.. who also had no idea. he ordered an MRI but there was a 4 months waiting list... miraculasly it got bumbed up till the next tuesday woo only a two day wait.
So i went and had this MRI done they said they would get back to me within 10 days if something came up abnormal... two weeks past i heard nothing i assumed everything was ok and this virus would get out of my system... in the mean time i went to my family doctor to get some EI forms filled out... i made a flip comment about how i was probably fine cause i had not heard about the MRI and it just has to run its course. he says well we have your results they got sent to us here they are:
"Conclusion:
Multifocal white matter lesions. The morphology and ditribution of lesions in a patient of this age are suggestive of demyelination due to multiple sclerosis"
"fuck"
so upon returning home we called up the neurologist's office and yelled at them for not phoneing us to let us know that i appearently had MS.
"fuck"
we bizarrly enough got an appointment for the next day where we actually got to see these white lesions on my brain. the doctor than said its his gut instinct that i do not have MS.
"what the fuck"
so no one had any idea whats wrong with me and ive had the same head ache for over 6 weeks now. which is why i havent been blogging to much. excuses excuses.
on the bright side my family and my friends have been extreamly helpful
to which im quite happy. thanks so much!
I dont got the "ESPN"
and its not a tumor! although i do have proof i have a brain and the most perfect beautiful egg shaped head i ever saw.
here is the story..
Once upon a time on feb 18th 2006 I went and saw rocky horror picture show with my good friend we had a beer and a good time but i started not feeling well so i got him to take me home. Next morning i wake up Sunday Feb. 19th 2006 feeling like supreme shit. I had only had one beer i shouldnt have been feeling this way. i wasnt hung over it was weirder than that.
So i decided to go get myself a glass of water as i was feeling dizzy and light headed and was trying to remedy the situation. Upon arrival in the kitchen everything in my vision shifted to the left, i had wicked vertigo, my legs stopped working the way they should and i collapsed on the kitchen floor.
I was promptly scooped off the floor and taken to emergancy where i waited.
5 hours later i was admited. The ER doctor did a bunch of tests he thought I may have had an aneurism.. i went up for a CAT scan. they were looking for some sort of tumor because i had a wicked bad headache..
it came back normal.
He then decided to do a lumbar puncture (which is a nice way of saying spinal tap, which is in turn a nice way of saying "we are gonna shove a 4 inch long needle into your spine and take out some fluid" ) so that test made sure i didnt have an aneurism...
also, the spinal tap didnt hurt as bad as everyone says! it was sorta uncomfortable but totally tolerable. extream body peircing or somthing. i have had other thing happen to me that hurt worse... like stepping on a nail.. that hurts waaaaay worse than the spinal tap.. get one! everyone is doing it.. you want to be cool dont you?
Anyway....
"I believe you have viral meningitus"
"oh shit"
"its not the life threating kind"
"can other people get it from me?"
"its not contagious"
"how did i get it then?"
"i dont know"
"how long will it last?"
"i dont know"
"why do i have vertigo"
"i dont know"
"oh... great"
"no work or driving until this gets sorted out"
"...."
So then he sends me to a neurologist who beat on me with hammers they he had no idea what was wrong (by this time i couldnt really walk without falling over as my legs wouldnt work) so he sent me to another neurologist.. who also had no idea. he ordered an MRI but there was a 4 months waiting list... miraculasly it got bumbed up till the next tuesday woo only a two day wait.
So i went and had this MRI done they said they would get back to me within 10 days if something came up abnormal... two weeks past i heard nothing i assumed everything was ok and this virus would get out of my system... in the mean time i went to my family doctor to get some EI forms filled out... i made a flip comment about how i was probably fine cause i had not heard about the MRI and it just has to run its course. he says well we have your results they got sent to us here they are:
"Conclusion:
Multifocal white matter lesions. The morphology and ditribution of lesions in a patient of this age are suggestive of demyelination due to multiple sclerosis"
"fuck"
so upon returning home we called up the neurologist's office and yelled at them for not phoneing us to let us know that i appearently had MS.
"fuck"
we bizarrly enough got an appointment for the next day where we actually got to see these white lesions on my brain. the doctor than said its his gut instinct that i do not have MS.
"what the fuck"
so no one had any idea whats wrong with me and ive had the same head ache for over 6 weeks now. which is why i havent been blogging to much. excuses excuses.
on the bright side my family and my friends have been extreamly helpful
to which im quite happy. thanks so much!
I dont got the "ESPN"
and its not a tumor! although i do have proof i have a brain and the most perfect beautiful egg shaped head i ever saw.
posted by Runs With Scissors at 8:38 PM
2 Comments:
Wild ride.....thats for sure....
You'll get better...cause I will it..and things will be just lovely....I will that too....and there will be tea and cake and eggs and donkeys with 27 legs...
It is a very pretty head though.......
It's a critical rejection by your body of a bad colour scheme.
White splotches on grey? I mean REALLY!
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