It's me again, I know I'm not very good at the whole blogging thing and for that I am sorry. This week has been an interesting one. But first, let me tell you what I have been up to. I am in my second to last semester of college. I am taking 14 credit hours this semester just so I can graduate in December.
Now the not so good news… About a month ago, I woke up and was unable to feel my right arm and leg. After a while I had feeling back in my arm and leg but my foot has never felt the same. Some days I wake up and am completely numb again and can’t move my extremities. I went to both the cardiologist and the neurosurgeon. The cardiologist said my EKG and Echo look pretty much the same as they both did last May.
Now for the neurosurgeon, he had already scheduled a CT scan for me to have before he saw me. Basically, he determined that the ventricles that hold fluid in my head have gotten bigger so although my shunt is working, I am still holding extra fluid. I suffer from what is called Basilar invagination – in layman’s terms the brain stem presses into the spinal cord and this extra fluid that I am holding is causing it to press down more. This is not a good thing. He manually drained off a lot of fluid and is starting me on a new medicine this week. I am scheduled for an MRI next week and then another appointment with the neurosurgeon on the 24th to see where we are in this unknown journey I call life. As I continue this journey, my family and I would appreciate your prayers for comfort, peace, and direction as we try and figure out what the next step is.
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