Yea, Surgery is over!

Well I finally got to return home following a wonderful surgery to my silly head. It is pretty funny to see a side that is full of 24 staples. I always thought I was going to get a small little hole in my skull, but surprised to believe that the surgery placed a 4" hole in my skull, moved my ear, cut my temple muscle and then put it all back together. Well I am very excited that the surgeon said that he thought everything was good and I just needed some time to work on getting all back to normal. I had a few moments with all the nurses and my iv history. Holey mackerel. Being a paramedic for over ten years I had to keep talking to them about some things. Anyway, they were all very nice and were happy to keep the morphine coming. My movement was pretty good and I was very excited that this big thing was removed and now I was just focused on the recovery so that I could get back to being me.

Change gears?

I spent the morning meeting the new neuro-surgeon named Mark Spicer. Life is a little funny when I show up to see a doctor that I have never used or needed before now. He pulled open all the MRI films and made a statement that I needed to have surgery on my head immediately. He stated that he needed to go in and remove the thing that we could see before it became a huge problem. Whew! Again more interesting info that I probably never got to see or understand. Well when should I get this surgery done? Tomorrow, and get it immediately. Another shock to my system. He came over to the table and started asking me more questions to help me realize why this was something that needed to be taken care of immediately, yet it was still a little hard to see the whole thing. Brain surgery tomorrow morning. WOW. I knew this was something that was right and needed but what a great issue that was suddenly all overwhelming. Here I was a regular guy that had never had any sort of medical issues for my whole life and now this thing that was so big. Again WOW! I spent the rest of the day at the hospital getting all the tests completed so that I would be cleared for surgery on Tuesday morning.

It is sometimes hard to see and follow all the items that are correct in your life.

I had suffered a strange pain in my head for the last two weeks. Every morning after waking up I felt the pain in the same exact spot. It was on my left side just slightly above my eye. It never moved and continued to be there every morning. I thought I needed more coffee or maybe I had too much caffeine. It was a pain that was there until work got me started and then as I would relax for lunch, that same strange pain would return. Clearly as a paramedic I knew that this was not right. I had a fear that I had some type of aneurysm. What was I going to do with some stupid pain in my head. I finally decided that I needed to be seen by my doctor and get this craziness fixed. I met a doctor for the first time. We had no previous history or any time shared together. She had lots of questions and we chatted about a lot of things. She was a little concerned that my blood pressure was 148/108. I thought that was way to high also, but just was guessing that I was irritated or concerned about this ridiculous situation. She believed that I had something to check and sent me to get a CAT scan that day. Great I thought a way to see my aneurysm in my brain. But I knew she was the one who had to be involved to return my health to correctness.
I have never had a cat scan and it was a little weird to be laying on a board with a medical device totally close to my face. Whew. Finally finished after 15 minutes of irritation.
I received a call later that afternoon and was told by the doctor that there was something there that needed some more test. Fantastic I thought my brain aneurysm was finally found. What not can I expect. I was told that I needed a MRI to get a little more tests done. I completed the MRI with 30 minutes of being very scarred and irritated as I laid on this board while many sounds and shakes were there to find out info. A little weired to not be able to move any body parts as all this was working very loudly and energetically. Once finished the staff said that they were going to send the info to the doctor, but here were the film pages for me to keep. Looking at them it seemed strange, but I was never a brain expert and thought that this one thing was a little weird, a little circle that was white probably could be something strange.
The doctor called me on Thursday and said that I had something in my brain and she made an appointment to see a neurosurgeon on Monday morning at 8 am. Suddenly I was worried. What is wrong with my brain, what is growing in my brain, what the hell are you talking about! What is this thing?