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Feb. 11th, 2004 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziI had my followup visit with the doctor today to be told how my MRI turned out. Mostly it was good news.
The vertigo is all gone, I feel great, and I expected this to be a formality. It was, essentially, but he wanted to show me the photos of my brain. This was actually extremely cool in a slightly gruesome way - the cutthrough photos of my eyeballs seemed weirder than the cutthroughs of the brain, I'm not sure why. He briefly pointed to various bits, like the ventricles, and then pointed to a small white triangle showing up in the middle from two angles. He quickly explained that it's not unusual to have these show up in the brain of someone over 30, and that they aren't entirely sure what they are, but the best explanation is that it's a small bit of scar tissue, and the likely explanation is a very small stroke.
Wow. That could be - and I have a hunch I can even remember the day it happened, since that was the WEIRDEST headache I ever had. ACat remembers it too, a year or two back - I think I was acting kind of strange. Anyhow, no significant damage appears to have been done and it's not likely to be related to the problem I was actually there for, but I admit I never expected to be told today that I'd probably had a stroke and never known it.
The vertigo is all gone, I feel great, and I expected this to be a formality. It was, essentially, but he wanted to show me the photos of my brain. This was actually extremely cool in a slightly gruesome way - the cutthrough photos of my eyeballs seemed weirder than the cutthroughs of the brain, I'm not sure why. He briefly pointed to various bits, like the ventricles, and then pointed to a small white triangle showing up in the middle from two angles. He quickly explained that it's not unusual to have these show up in the brain of someone over 30, and that they aren't entirely sure what they are, but the best explanation is that it's a small bit of scar tissue, and the likely explanation is a very small stroke.
Wow. That could be - and I have a hunch I can even remember the day it happened, since that was the WEIRDEST headache I ever had. ACat remembers it too, a year or two back - I think I was acting kind of strange. Anyhow, no significant damage appears to have been done and it's not likely to be related to the problem I was actually there for, but I admit I never expected to be told today that I'd probably had a stroke and never known it.
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Date: 2004-02-11 04:11 pm (UTC)So glad you're okay.
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Date: 2004-02-11 04:41 pm (UTC)...Am I right in reading that they said that a significant proportion of folks over thirty have had a small stroke?
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Date: 2004-02-11 05:19 pm (UTC)I suppose this means that you now have some idea of what to look for as stroke symptoms, which could help other people.
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Date: 2004-02-11 07:20 pm (UTC)Presumably the doctor talked to you about hereditary and habitual risk factors?
Really glad you're okay. Healthy wishes for you.
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Date: 2004-02-12 05:42 am (UTC)And you are well, which is what matters! Yay!
*hug*
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Date: 2004-02-12 11:58 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2004-02-12 03:01 pm (UTC)'berta