Author: Darren Long

A blog about me, my meds, my brain surgeries, my hospital stays, my doctor visits, my life... la la la...

Doctors Appointment

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I saw my Neurologist today. I had actually publicized that the appointment was supposed to be on Thursday. But, whatever. Saw the doctor, and I got to see images of my brain from the MRI scan on Monday. Interesting. I’ve seen such images of my brain before, but the doctor wanted to make sure there wasn’t any shown damage of my pulling the cables from my head while I was in the hospital before. Luckily, there was not any damage shown.

First of all, there is another patient that is “in line” before me. So, I can’t just hop in tomorrow and get this done. On the 20th, the surgeon is out of town and will be back on the 23rd. So, the surgery will either be on the 23rd, 24th or 27th. We are waiting till next week on either Tuesday or Thursday to get a call with a decision of the best date to go forward with the surgery. The Neurologist is also leaving to go to Turkey on Valentines Day, so he wants to make sure I get in and out before he leaves.

Christmas seizure…

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Hope everyone had a good Christmas. My family and I did. Sherry and I were watching TV around 8:00 or 8:30 and I felt an aura. When these happen, I can’t talk but I look over to Sherry and make eye contact with her and she knows what is happening. Smaller ones (just auras) that I have more often, come to me and pass fairly quickly. This time the aura came on and turned into a full-fledged seizure that lasted about 5-minutes, which seems like an hour. After the seizure was over, it took my body a good 10-15 minutes to fully relax back to “normal”.

I feel much better today.

I’m still having the MRI on Monday the 30th and seeing my Neurologist on Thursday the 2nd. Hope I don’t need to write about another one of these seizures again soon.

Seizure in Sounds

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I just read this NPR article that talked about the exact same surgery I had. It had an audio portion further down the page where you could listen to “An Epileptic Seizure in Sound”. This is very wicked and weird.

Oh, and I’m sure that you may want to read the article, too. Very interesting. Now, they talk about using small jolts of electricity to cause the person to do things. I didn’t get that far in the testing because I pulled those few leads out of my head. But, they got enough of what they needed. I’m going to have a map laid out on my brain next time I go in for my next surgery. This date isn’t set yet. We’ll have to wait and see…

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/09/248999497/epilepsy-patients-help-decode-the-brains-hidden-signals

Another trip to Hospital

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Well, went to go see my Neurosurgeon about my hole in my head. He said, “It should heal itself from the inside out. Get a scab on it. Use Neosporin on it.”

Basically, he just told me to keep doing what I was already doing.

Keep an eye on the thing and make sure it is growing smaller, else they may have problems when they chop my head open again sometime next month. 😐