It’s Not a Tumah!
Hooray for no brain cancer!
After nearly two months, one CAT scan, two MRI’s, an EEG, one failed “sleep study” and something called Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (which seems to involve the same technology used to determine the chemical composition of stars, only pointed right at my skull), I finally got word today that all my various sleep disorders and assorted headache troubles are not, thank god, the result of cancer in the brain.
How’s that for good news?
It’s not every day a guy gets to hear he doesn’t have brain cancer. (Have you heard you don’t have brain cancer today?)
The neurologists still aren’t sure exactly what’s been causing my assorted head problems… Scary words like “tumor” and “biopsy” originally came up when the first MRI showed my hippocampus lit up like Christmas and festooned with festive “little dots.” I’m not sure what that was all about, but it might have something to do with having the test done just a few days after the second-worst migraine of my life. But anyway, the second MRI showed my brain essentially back to normal. (As if it ever WAS! BWAHAHAHAHAHAohdeargodmakeitstop…) The “little dots” might actually be scar tissue from 20 years of chronic migraining, believe it or not. And if the notion of scar tissue on the brain freaks you out… well, join the club, buddy.
They put me on this new seizure medication to cut out the night terrors, and so far it seems to be working. The migraines I’m not as worried about, since they only hit me once a year or so (again, like Christmas). But I have some new meds for that, too, so with any luck this’ll be the end of any health-related blog posting for a long, long time.
Man, that was pretty scary. Not as scary as it would’ve been if I’d actually allowed myself to think about it much, but still… scary.
I have a disc right here filled to brimming with images of my brain, but they won’t open on my computer. So here’s an image of a bride and groom being impaled on Triceratops horns instead:
It’s about as good a look inside my head as anything else, to be honest.
Hooray for no brain cancer!
Yay! we get to keep you longer Mr A
though tell everyone close to you what to do if you have a seizure, better safe than sorry, i do hate when they can’t figure it out and then just throw meds at you
Every time I hear “sleep study” I think of that scene from Nightmare on Elm Street. O_O Thank God you’re okay!! I’ll getcha something at the Texas Ren Faire today. 😀
What kind of file are the images? It probably wouldn’t be to hard to find a program that would open them and/or convert them to a more standard format.
That’s always the best news. Congratulations or however you spell that b/c i can’t. 🙂
Do you think it could be some disc compression? A friend of mine had really bad headaches b/c 2 of his vertebrae were mushing down wrong and had to go to the chiropractor. They’re better now but go back every couple months to get realigned.
Sounds like something you do to your car but instead it’s your back. HA
Quite relieved to hear you’re okay! Real scary stuff Mr. A, but I’m glad we get to keep you around. However health comes first, and poor Sera would be stuck all alone without you. Stay well!
Man I’m glad you’re ok… I can only imagine how you felt. But hey hope everything gets even better!
Yay for no cancer! It’s good to hear, because I like your brain.
Thanks all that is good that you brain is safe, as well as you. 🙂 Glad to hear your okay.
Like the card picture as well. That had to hurt. 😛
Always good to hear you don’t have cancer! Cripes, though, I can’t believe you’ve managed to stick to a regular schedule despite all the crazy stuff happening to your brain. You’re too good to us, you know!
Oh, I’m so glad! 😀 Hope the new meds make a difference, and hurrah for triceratops wedding carnage and no brain cancer!
That is good news.
It would be terrible to lose another artist due to cancer.
/R.I.P. Michael Turner
BTW, what are the file types (the little three letter extension) of files on the disc? I think I might know a program that could open those files. (Hopefully something open source (as in cheap!))
Nothing is more fasicnating that peeking inside your own noggin and seeing what is going on in there.
YAAAAAY! XD
*does a happy no-cancer-dance for you*
I’m so glad you’re ok!
Wow, how’d I miss this? Such extraodinary good news! Though I’m not sure why they jumped to brain cancer from that. I’d complain that ‘Its preposterous!’ but then I should also be saying ‘if those are the symptoms I should have been worried years ago’…
But I remember having my MRIs and the like! All sorts of tests to determine if my brain is officially destroying itself. What fun! Turns out it is, but I put that down to my brain trying to neutralise the thoughts it goes through. Its constantly trying to destroy my ability to speak and my ability to write, to stop me word-say mean different thing.
Conveniently I know someone who works for a company that makes these brain-scan machines, and he programs them. If you want I can see if I can get him to open the files? Having scans of your brain is like a step up of having scans of an unborn child. The brain tells stories of things gone, while the baby can’t tell you anything till it’s born.
Or something.