Comments on: My Brain Does Not Like Me http://toomuchnonsense.com/brain-trauma/brain-trauma-abdominal-pain.html My Personal Blog About My Experiances With Divorce, Online Dating & Other Nonsense In Our Lives Tue, 18 May 2010 07:28:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andy http://toomuchnonsense.com/brain-trauma/brain-trauma-abdominal-pain.html/comment-page-1#comment-471 Andy Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:32:39 +0000 http://toomuchnonsense.com/?p=661#comment-471 I can't argue with that.. Oh so many secrets I can’t argue with that.. Oh so many secrets

]]> By: Andy http://toomuchnonsense.com/brain-trauma/brain-trauma-abdominal-pain.html/comment-page-1#comment-97 Andy Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:57:03 +0000 http://toomuchnonsense.com/?p=661#comment-97 What ever it was is gone. I saw my neurosurgeon and he told me to grow some balls next time. "Did you have a fever?".. No... "well then it wasn't infected"... Oh well, I guess I am a hypochondriac What ever it was is gone. I saw my neurosurgeon and he told me to grow some balls next time. “Did you have a fever?”.. No… “well then it wasn’t infected”… Oh well, I guess I am a hypochondriac

]]> By: Andy http://toomuchnonsense.com/brain-trauma/brain-trauma-abdominal-pain.html/comment-page-1#comment-48 Andy Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:17:37 +0000 http://toomuchnonsense.com/?p=661#comment-48 Well, I'm back from the Emergency Room. It was the usual emergency room adventure. I was in and out under five hours. They did the usual, CT scan of the brain, x-rays of my catheter and blood tests. 5 hours and 50 bucks later, the outcome is.......... You have inflammation around the catheter but we don't know why. Well just great. I walked out of the ER with the same information I had when I went in. In all fairness, I understand what he was saying. It's not uncommon for this to happen to someone that just had a VP shunt installed, usually after the first six months your free and clear. It is extremely rare for this to happen two years out. The ER doctor conferred with my neurosurgeon. The consensus is, if it doesn't clear up in a week, I get hospitalized. If the pain increases, I get hospitalized. I don't even want to think about that. So Light a candle for me. I have a one in three chance of staying out of the hospital. Well, I’m back from the Emergency Room. It was the usual emergency room adventure. I was in and out under five hours. They did the usual, CT scan of the brain, x-rays of my catheter and blood tests.

5 hours and 50 bucks later, the outcome is………. You have inflammation around the catheter but we don’t know why. Well just great. I walked out of the ER with the same information I had when I went in.

In all fairness, I understand what he was saying. It’s not uncommon for this to happen to someone that just had a VP shunt installed, usually after the first six months your free and clear. It is extremely rare for this to happen two years out. The ER doctor conferred with my neurosurgeon. The consensus is, if it doesn’t clear up in a week, I get hospitalized. If the pain increases, I get hospitalized. I don’t even want to think about that.

So Light a candle for me. I have a one in three chance of staying out of the hospital.

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