I got a call just a little while ago from my doctor’s office. My doctor isn’t in but another doctor at the clinic took a look at the MRI report. There are no definitive masses but it is abnormal. The MRI report suggests an additional test of an enhanced MRI – another “better” machine or dye’s the receptionist wasn’t clear on what was actually suggested. We made an appointment for next Wednesday morning with my doctor to go over the results and see if the test really is needed.

Now this can mean many things!
1. The MRI reporters don’t realized I had a brain tumor removed already (despite the fact it was written on the test referral, told over the phone when the appointment was scheduled and that I had mentioned on my own paperwork when I filled it out).
2. The other doctor didn’t look into my past MRI’s to compare results.

However this doesn’t mean I don’t feel that sort of panic that sets in after you’ve gone through one of these things already. Waiting a week is going to be killer on my nerves. I’ll have to tell Shea when he calls or comes home and hopefully that will be the last time I think about it. At least that is my hope, chances though of that happening are pretty slim, I don’t expect to sleep much.

So we wait in a state of unbalance until next Wednesday. Thankfully today is a lovely day out side and I can go outside and watch the girlies play while working a little on my laptop if it’s behaving today.

Welp, had my MRI done today. They didn’t say anything and I’m pretty sure I nodded off in that noisy thing and started myself but I know not to move so I think it was just me mentally jerking cause I was frozen still while lying there.

They sent me home with a disk for any referrals, if there are any. I’ll just keep it with all our other paperwork for now. The doctor will get a report of it all, with out another scheduled appointment makes me wonder what is next.

Also turned in the heart holter thingie I wore for the past 24 hours and I was ready for it to go the damn sticky pads were making me itch like crazy. That’ll take a better part of a week to get results back so we’ll see what he says.

So not it’s a waiting game.

I’m still tracking my headaches, not so much my food anymore, that’s a bit more annoying and I’m pretty sure that it’s not relative to anything. I will however continue to track meds of any kind, specifically any Over-the-counter meds I take for various other pains – which to date I’ve not taken any of. I’ll record any caffeine I have too.

So now we wait.

I had a doctor appointment today related to last Thursday’s post about that weird fall I had in the morning.

He thinks it was a syncope or more easily put “fainting” – a loss of conscientiousness and posture. I do not recall “passing out” just falling down. There was no black out nothing, major wobbly knees and I “fell down”. But as I was looking u syncope, I also noticed it could be related to migraine attacks. I did have an aura around 4pm and I did have a headache after I “fell”. So it’s possible, but I didn’t black out or anything so I’m still skeptical.

Today’s appointment let to some testing and more testing to follow. Thursday I will go to get a Holter monitor put on. Basically monitoring my heart for 24 hours. Then on Friday I will turn it in for their analysis and then I will go a few streets down for a MRI of the brain. Today they took some blood, did an EKG of my heart and an echo of my heart. The only results I have is the EKG and the doctor said that was fine.

My biggest concerns are brain tumor of course, anemia and diabetes. Three things that could be life altering. So we’ll see what this all comes to.

Today I moved the van to the park so that the painters next door wouldn’t accidentally get spray on it. I jogged back from the park as I didn’t want the girls to wake up with me gone. As I got to the porch I started to feel like I was going to fall down, my knees felt like jelly . I don’t know how to explain it but it was like I folded in on myself as I ‘fell’. There was a weird feeling in my stomach as I moved. I just laid their for several seconds going what the hell was that.

I was able to get back up to my knees and crawl in the house, my knees still didn’t feel like they could hold me. After getting into the house I felt better and could get up and walk.

I have a slight pain in my belly where I felt weird at and my back aches. They may not be related to headaches but I thought this was worth noting in my headache journal.

But needless to say it has me concerned. I still don’t feel top of my game, but that’s probably the adrenaline still in my system from that freak out, as this is typically how I feel after that.

Note to others: When I feel I first sat down then went backwards to lay down it wasn’t really falling I didn’t hurt myself in anyway falling. And I am keeping myself indoors as much as possible today and near a wall or something. I really don’t know what it was all about and I now have a slight headache on the left side. Something else to note in the journal. I kinda felt this one coming on earlier this morning. And I have no Imatrix either. Hope it’s not bad.