In case any of you were wondering how the other doctor appointment went Thursday…
I have an MRI of my skull scheduled for March 31st.
They’re doing two of them: “with and without contrast”. This means that for the second one, they’re going to inject dye into me so everything in my head lights up like a tacky Las Vegas strip.
I’ve had plenty of MRI’s in my life, but none with dye.
Best case scenario is that it’s a benign mass which isn’t growing.
Or, better yet, that it’s somehow dissolved and magically disappeared.
Worst case is… well, you know.
Fun Fact: The dye they use to help check for brain abnormalities… one of the possible side effects is that it can cause more brain abnormalities. Which is sort of like a diet drug having weight gain as a side effect.
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Lesser matters: As for the cold/flu thing, it’s turned into sinusitis and an ear infection.
It feels like something jammed a railroad spike in there.
I’ll be on antibiotics for the next ten days.
Can’t taste anything, can’t smell anything, and sometimes I can’t hear out of the bad ear.
Slept about 13 hours today, which is a nice change from the insomnia.
My body feels like a Jenga tower in the last few minutes of the game.
If the wrong piece gets messed up, I will crumble into bits.
Some of the bits will be abnormal and colored with dye.
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when you get home from the Doc, you’ll have to check to see if magnets stick to your head or just make the skin change color.
If magnets stick to my head, I promise to post a picture.
That’d be awesome. Seriously though I hope you get good news.
Depending on what kind of mood I’m in, the definition of “good news” varies.
But yes.
Thanks. 🙂
I guess congrats on getting the doc to give you the MRI. So which doc gave the referral? Your regular PCP that you like?
But how come you’re getting 2? Why would you need both, with and without contrast? I’m assuming the one with contrast will show more, and in more detail. If so, then why do you also need the regular MRI?
Ah, if only you’d come out with mutant powers afterwards. That would be neat. What would you like your mutant powers to be?
Cordless would have Hot n Spicy Mutant Powers
That would be awesome too.
(!)
The test was ordered by my regular PCP that I like, yes.
Honestly I have no clue why they need two, unless each offers perspectives that the other doesn’t.
I would like my superpower to be the ability to watch other people work out, and then absorb their health benefits. (“I’m feeling great! Watched a guy bench press about 200 pounds the other day, and my biceps are AMAZING! Watched the same lady jog for three weeks straight, and I’ve lost 20 pounds!”)
LOL
I think there was a girl in the show “Heroes” where she just needs to watch something and she can mimic it perfectly. Like watch some martial arts on tv, and boom, she can execute the exact moves perfectly.
And how the how do people make such amazing sand sculptures? I don’t remember if I ever tried as a kid but I’m pretty sure if I did, it would look like…. an-upside-down bucket -_-‘
It is amazing how they get it to hold together so well.
I doubt mine would even hold together in bucket form; I’d have to cover by calling it some fancy artsy fartsy name. (“This is my newest work. The medium used is common sand, mixed with the toe jam of disillusioned beach-goers. I’ve titled it “Pacific Schadenfreude”.
Life is a beach.
Oh you mean like how the side effect of anti-depressants is that it *may* cause suicide? hrm…
Exactly!
Well…I guess in that case, if you’re no longer alive, you no longer have depression. So…
the drug manufacturers can call it “success.”
Alarming but true.
And how do you find these neat/weird pics online? Like what are your search terms?
Google: “giant head in sand pic”
I have way too much time on my hands, being stuck in bed for days at a time with the disability/mobility issues. So I Google ALL KINDS OF CRAP.
LOL.
When I find a picture I like, I save it in a folder to use later on.
@cordless… did I here stuck in bed?
OMG
It’s like you have super-hearing…
Lousy auto-correct, but super-hearing…
@ super lousy auto correct.. crazy amazing hearing!!!! hey it’s not like I didn’t tell u the second I joined sp I liked u
Meaning I Google a whole variety of things…
I don’t actually Google the phrase “ALL KINDS OF CRAP”.
🙂
Hm, but if you did, what would you come up with?
I just tried it…
One thing that came up was this:
http://poopnames.com/
Um.
OMG — Turtle Poopie
The kind of poopie that pops out a little and goes back in a few times before it finallly comes out
I know, right?
Some of those are so peculiar they’re downright hilarious and disturbing at the same time.
Hey, it’s a nice thing you slept.
🙂
Try to grab that feeling. Hope you can sleep today too.
Yay! I hope so too!
Make sure to ask for medication if you’re allergic to something. Pretty sure they asked you already but hey, can never be too careful when they are injecting stuff into your brain.
As far as I know, I’m not allergic to any medications…
This would be a heck of a way to find out.
I hope you can get some answers from the mri s. As for the cold/flu thing, I have it too, for the past two weeks now, it’s settled in my lungs even though it’s still in my head, hopefully the antibiotics help you. That will probably be what I have to do if I’m not better soon. If you have any kind of cough or sore throat a mixture of honey, apple cider vinegar , lemon juice and a dash of cayenne pepper does wonders.
I’ve had it also for about 2 weeks.
It started subtly and slowly and then POW.
I have these Vitamin C drops I’m taking, plus some of those heavy-duty Chloraseptic sore throat drops that have numbing stuff in them. I can’t even taste anything, yet I can still tell those Chloraseptic things taste AWFUL. 😛
Chloraseptic is nasty. You sure you don’t want to take Wintergirls’ suggestion, cuz that sounds so much better.
Sadly, I don’t have any honey or lemon juice here… and I feel too rotten to get out right now.
Dinner was a package of ramen noodles… which I hope (sort of) counts as chicken noodle soup.
I know it’ll get better eventually.
Cold/Flu stuff is temporary and all I need to do is rest and take my antibiotics and try to eat SOMETHING every day whether I can taste it or not.
If only ALL my health junk would be guaranteed to get better in a few weeks….
I remember in prison we could cook the Ramen and Spam in the five gallon percolater at night flavor it with tapatio sauce and roll it in the tortias we made from water and old bread.
Oh wait that was a movie. Nevermind
OMG.
Ha… I have a bottle of tapatio in the fridge right now, but I never use it because it isn’t hot enough.
I haven’t had Spam since I was a child… I can barely remember what it tastes like.
That must have been some movie. 😮
I did try having cayenne pepper, though. I LOVE cayenne pepper and I have no problem in adding it to things.
Confession: I carry a shaker of habanero pepper flakes with me everywhere I go. Over the years, I have sprinkled them on chicken sandwiches, pizza, burritos, BBQ, macaroni and cheese… the hotter the better.
I knew a guy who carried HOT PEPPERS, yes actual peppers with him. And he’d sneak it into his food.
Sneaky aye
@bah: I admit I have done that also.
@ToTrees: Sneaky is fun!
I have some hot peppers that I dried last summer bet I could have some pretty good hot pepper flakes from them. Maybe you could warm up a little water and add a bit of cayenne powder to it. I have done that before and it relieves sore throat pain. I have chloroseptic spray too, nasty yet effective when I don’t have natural options.
I have some of that Chloraseptic spray too, yet I only use it as a last resort because, as you said, it is 100% nasty.
What I’m craving right now is a salad with grilled chicken strips, grape tomatoes, baby spinach, bacon, matchstick carrots, shredded parmesan, broccoli, and caesar vinaigrette.
Don’t spray chloraseptic on your salad. ?????
O.O
Good advice!
wow, this is the first healthy food item i’ve heard you mention LOL. your previous mentions have been bacon, McD’s, chips, ice cream, that candy powder in a tube thing…
LOL.
I do eat healthy things.
It’s just more fun to talk about the junky things. 🙂