It's November... For various reasons I am an absolute cranky pants during all if not MOST of November.
So, I've made a pact that for the rest of November I am going to be nice. Not saccharin sweet, but nice.. Not overly nice, but sedately nice. Not diazepam nice, but just nice.
Nice... If I fail to be nice to you, please put your grievences in writing and I'll get back to you in December.
Regards
Me
Monday, November 22, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Tuesday's visit to my new best friend, Dr H.
I gotta tell you, for a busy man he is pretty prompt.
We arrived 15 minutes early as per the instructions.. Dr H. arrived soon after, even though I had a bit of a whinge about the fact that WE are expected to be there within a certain time frame why couldn't he be?
Then I thought, well he is probably driving an unreliable BMW or Jag or something along those lines and it's broken down or his car had been stolen in an unsavory part of town and therefore he couldn't get there on time. As I sit there thinking of all the "worst case scenario's" Dr H could be going through he walked through the door more or less spot on my appointment time. Thank god, cause the next thing on my list to think about was the fact that I may need to find another Neurologist, and this thought didn't appeal to me cause I have kinda gotten used to Dr H and his idiosyncrasies.
Very soon after he calls me in followed by my entourage of Mum and Aaron. He informs me that he has a student Doctor with him, who doesn't seem to have an identity.
It was a lengthy consult of over an hour, with questions and answers being thrown around the room and a great slide show of my brain MRI scans with a show n tell of the lesions in my brain, including one that is about the size of a 20c piece deep in the rear right of my brain and other smaller lesions that are a tear drop shape from my central cortex.
We discussed topics from medication to renovations.. He has indicated that he didn't want to put me on medication as yet, and to see what the next MRI shows. I have booked in for a full MRI of my brain and spinal cord on the 21st January which means over an hour in the MRI tunnel, however he has taken liberty of prescribing Valium for me in the circumstance that I cannot handle such a long period inside the machine.
He also wanted me to go for a VEP test (http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/healthinvestigations.asp?sid=52) which in laymans terms tests how my eyes react to my brain and vice versa. Bad news is I don't find out the outcome of this test until after the dreaded MRI in January when I see Dr H again which will be almost 6 months after diagnosis and should give some indication as to how the condition is progressing.
Oh, and by the way, he drives a Mazda!
We arrived 15 minutes early as per the instructions.. Dr H. arrived soon after, even though I had a bit of a whinge about the fact that WE are expected to be there within a certain time frame why couldn't he be?
Then I thought, well he is probably driving an unreliable BMW or Jag or something along those lines and it's broken down or his car had been stolen in an unsavory part of town and therefore he couldn't get there on time. As I sit there thinking of all the "worst case scenario's" Dr H could be going through he walked through the door more or less spot on my appointment time. Thank god, cause the next thing on my list to think about was the fact that I may need to find another Neurologist, and this thought didn't appeal to me cause I have kinda gotten used to Dr H and his idiosyncrasies.
Very soon after he calls me in followed by my entourage of Mum and Aaron. He informs me that he has a student Doctor with him, who doesn't seem to have an identity.
It was a lengthy consult of over an hour, with questions and answers being thrown around the room and a great slide show of my brain MRI scans with a show n tell of the lesions in my brain, including one that is about the size of a 20c piece deep in the rear right of my brain and other smaller lesions that are a tear drop shape from my central cortex.
We discussed topics from medication to renovations.. He has indicated that he didn't want to put me on medication as yet, and to see what the next MRI shows. I have booked in for a full MRI of my brain and spinal cord on the 21st January which means over an hour in the MRI tunnel, however he has taken liberty of prescribing Valium for me in the circumstance that I cannot handle such a long period inside the machine.
He also wanted me to go for a VEP test (http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/healthinvestigations.asp?sid=52) which in laymans terms tests how my eyes react to my brain and vice versa. Bad news is I don't find out the outcome of this test until after the dreaded MRI in January when I see Dr H again which will be almost 6 months after diagnosis and should give some indication as to how the condition is progressing.
Oh, and by the way, he drives a Mazda!
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