Hi! I had my lumbar puncture/spinal tap yesterday. Sorry I didn't post, but I was bedfast for the entire day, per the hospital's instructions. It went ok, actually much better than the one I had done in 2011. They've improved the procedure, made it much faster, less painful. In fact, even though two surgery nurses …
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I wrote this blog post quite early this morning and didn't post it. I wasn't sure about it. Since then, I've reread it twice and have had second thoughts about posting it. I usually post an End of Year post on the last day of the year, but this one is too depressing, too negative. …
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I'm having a minor neurological surgical procedure Monday morning to hopefully relieve some Trigeminal Neuralgia-related head and facial pain I've been having. This will be at least my eighth such procedure since summer 2011. Some have worked and some haven't. I had three last year and none of them worked at all, but one I …
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This is my 600th blog post on WordPress. Yay! My wife is from Maryland and her parents, grown sons, and many friends still live there and she rarely gets up there to visit, so we went up last week for Thanksgiving. She had been looking forward to it for a long time. It was an …
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As I may have mentioned, I have spent several months trying to get into Vandy's Headache Clinic before finally finding out I was accepted and getting an appointment. It was for this past Thursday. I was both excited and nervous. Some background. In September 2010, I started getting horrific headaches that I thought were severe …
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