Nothing like a Two week holiday, and this wasn't that.

Okay,
so where was I when we last left off? .....

Go to Neurologist,who first asks, 'why didn't you come in yesterday?'
Can you say "F--- you?"

He says go to emergency room. I beg for a few days. I had a date with Mitchell that night and was going to a dinner with friends and psychic readings that coming Tuesday. I promise I would go to ER on Wednesday morning.

Guess where I end up that afternoon?

I got every neurological test under the sun.
Lets see...
CAT scan
EKG
EEG
Echocardiogram
MRI with and without contrast
MRA
MRV
Lumbar MRI
TEE(Trans esophogeal echocardiogram: done through an endoscope and the tool (?) can get the heart from the bottom up. Used to see if there are any blood clots waiting to travel. All I can say is, good IV drugs to put you out.
Lumbar Spinal Tap.
About 10 different blood work ups.

Positives:
Food was pretty tasty during my stay.
Believe it or not they had a really great vegi burger.
I had low cholesterol/low sodium diet but I learned to use sweet coleslaw on things.
Really great nurses, aides, PT's and OT's.
I did not have a stroke.

Negatives:
My Neuro groups newest doctor and the Physician Assistant. Two people with no business being allowed near patients.

Being far away from my Jazzy. He was so lonely. He finally curled up to my mom which was great but I was lonely too. My mom would put me on speaker phone and I would talk to my boy. He must have gone nuts trying to find me . I always heard him racing around and barking.

Putting my friends through not knowing where I was. It took a few days to reach my in person friends and without my wonderful adopted Momma Bess, my cyber friends would have continued to worry.

Really Negatives:
"According to these reports, there is nothing neurologically wrong with you. It's all mental, due to stress."

Now read back, oh say up where I said something about a Physician Assistant who should not be allowed anywhere near patients...That was what she said to me after my last test but before my lumbar spinal tap. I do have a herniated disc L4/L5 (which I already knew). But "All these reports say that it is not impinging on a nerve so that it wouldn't be causing you to not be able to walk without a walker".

AH, excuse me? So, you are basically saying that all my pain, herniated lumbar disc and headaches, and slurred words, weak left side, and all the shit I have been dealing with over the last year and a half is all in my(excuse the bad pun here people) head?


Ever see yourself as a train just as you are slamming straight into a brick wall.
Splat, then BOOM, pieces of me all over the place.

I am going to publish this now, I will continue when I get the rest of my "Head" together... ;)