My Aching Head...Say what??!!

Soooo....last Monday I left work with what seemed to be another bad headache that I have occasionally. But this one gradually got worse. I endured two days of being in bed with the most horrendous, painful and grueling head pounding (seriously...it hurt to blink) and throwing up everything I put in my mouth. Susan made an appointment with my Doctor, dragging me there Wednesday evening in my slippers. I thought, great...I'll get a shot for the nausea and some prescription Motrin or Tylenol. The gave me the shots (in my butt no less) but wanted to do an CT scan just to be careful. Next thing I know, I'm on an ambulance headed to Holmes Regional Medical Center. Apparently I had a "small bleed" and they were furiously racing to the hospital to make sure I wasn't having an aneurysm. Now, I was a bit concerned.  Even when the Doc told me of the CT scan I was like, "Cool, my sister can drive me to the Emergency room?" The Doc was like, "um...yah....no....I think you should ride in the ambulance, it is an extra cost however." WHAT THE FUCK! I said, "Doc, should I, in your opinion, take the ambulance or not, you are the doctor!?" He was like..."Yes, you should. "OK then let's go." 

The good news, no aneurysm. But, I do have an old benign cyst at the base of my brain that I was probably born with and over the years the ventricles around the cyst have enlarged. When my blood pressure gets high....the pressure can cause the most painful headaches. The Docs gave me migraine medication (won't be as good as the morphine they had me on in the hospital) and have ordered different BP medicine for me to better control my hypertension. And they say....no stress....right...they should live my life! Oh another bit of advice to the Doctor in the ER, don't come back with your MRI and CT results in your hand and open the conversation with, "I see you marked down Catholic, would you like to see a priest?", Cathy, "No, unless you think I need to." And then and hour later followed by, "Did you you know you had a benign tumor in your brain?" Cathy, "uh...noooooo...should I have????" MD's should have to take a class in bedside manner.

Susan was a great nurse and took care of me both in the hospital stay and at home as well as performing all "Dad duties" She even bought me those slippers in the picture to the right for my hospital stay....way cool. Of course, now that she has demonstrated she is more that capable of performing such duties...I told her I expect more from her from now on...LOL! I follow up with my Doctor tomorrow, still not 100%.

The fun never ends and La Casa de Cathy!