It’s been a long few days, health wise something of a setback with scans, tests, fluid being drained, more drugs and maybe more surgery.
Lets start with Thursday, that was simple and I had my scheduled MRI with no drama, all I had to do was lay there and listen to Pulp for 40 minutes, even I can do that. Thursday I never made it to work, I was in quite a lot of pain and no way can I work while on vicodin, that’s just not a good idea for anyone.
Friday was better and I made it to work for a few hours before bailing for the doctors’ appointments with the surgeon and oncologist. First stop was the ear/nose/throat surgeon that operated three weeks ago. We talked for a few minutes about the pain, headaches, balance problems, looking the MRI’s and his thoughts on what may be happening. Time for the white board again and lots of words I have to ask what they mean.
He then pulled out his instruments of torture, started off by looking to my ear. Went quiet and said lets do a quick hearing test. It was a bone induction test and the idea is to see how the nerves are, we know there is no conventional hearing on the right. It was 25-40dB down on where it was 10 days ago.
Apparently this indicated there is something wrong with the semi-circular canals and Cochlea. A few more questions and thoughts from the surgeon and it’s up a couple of floors for yet another scan.
The 30 minute appointment that started at one O’clock is now at 90 minutes, and it turns out we’d just started. I did not even have book with me.
To cut a long (I left at 6:30) story short, there was a lot of fluid in the inner ear, some of which was pressing on the brain and causing the headaches. Saturday morning I was back at UW and we drained 120ml of liquid out, my headache disappeared almost instantly and balance got significantly better.
We will have some more results back Monday and the rest on Tuesday. I’ve been given more antibiotics and new prescriptions for steroids, antihistamines and pseudoephedrine. And orders to spend much of the weekend laying on my left side.
Sunday morning I woke with a huge headache and visited the walk in clinic to get more fluid drained. This time far less than
With a wonderful mix of drugs running through me it’s makes for an interesting weekend. Still some bleeding, still can’t drive and while I have more energy, the steroids and pseudoephedrine may have something to do with that.
Long couple of days, not going to get easier with visits over the next couple of days. Big thank you to Min, Rob, Rob and Tracy for the help and rides over the last couple of days. We’ll BBQ soon.
