Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Roller Coaster

As a child I loved roller coasters. Ken and I used to talk and try to "crack each other up"...a term he claims to have coined. As an adult trying to figure out what is going to happen with my brain surgery it stinks. Here is the 14 day roller coaster:
November29- Get dizzy and blurred vision...Teresa makes me go to the doctor. I get a CT and
they say I have an abnormal variance. The doctor said he would bet me $1,000
it was nothing. I agreed and would not take the bet.
November30- I feel fine...I only go to the follow-up because of Teresa. I knew I was fine. I
went through all the testing and was told I need to eat better. No way!!! I
agreed to get a MRI only to prove I was fine.
December 1st- I notified my family that I was going through some testing. The theme was I am
fine don't worry.
December 4th- Get the MRI. Radiologist missed my vain and burns my arm with Iodine.
December 6th- We get the call. Teresa gets the call...you know the call. We are given an appointment with Dr. Megison for December 21st. Teresa's sister
Ann-Marie was fantastic. She drove 2 hours to our house and sent a copy
of our results to Richmond,VA where she has some friends in Neuro.
December 7th- We begin trying to get an earlier appointment. We get encouraging news from
Virginia that it is a tumor that will require surgery. We believe it is going to
a fairly straight forward and are encouraged by all the great things we have
heard about Dr. Megison.
December 8th - 12th- We call Dr. Megison's office 12 times along with help from Erlanger and
Lyn's father and whoever else called. We get an appointment with Dr Megison.
December 13th-We get to see Dr. Megison. We heard he was mean...but who cares...he is the
best. Dr. Megison entered the room like...he was the king. He put my picture
up and gave us the bleakest of pictures. He showed us the location and told
us there on only 5 people that could operate and blah...It was bad. We were
referred to Dr. Jon Robertson the President of everything brain surgery.
After googling Dr. Wizard we felt good about him being the best brain surgeon
around.
December 14th- Ken came from Iowa and my mother made arrangements to come for a month.

I hate to skip ahead but today I spoke with Dr. Robertson's office. I am scheduled at 1:30pm on
January 2nd. I will fill in the blanks later. I am going bowling.

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