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September 02, 2005

Episode # 7 "Borderline" Of:

AS THE TONSIL FALLS

#2.2 Thursday, Sept 1 at 3:15 Follow Up with "TheAccentMan"

Well, yesterday we went to my follow up appointment with "TheAccentMan." He said that the reason he wanted to see the MRI of my brain was because with the C-Spine MRI that he couldn't really tell exactly how far my tonsils had fallen. With the brain MRI it was clear as day. It has fallen down and is touching the top of my C1 vertebra.

He told us that he usually does surgery when the tonsil has fallen past C1, but since mine was just touching, and I was still able to work and go to school that my symptoms were borderline and not bad enough for surgery. "TheAccentMan" reinforced that it was an easy surgery for him but would be immensely painful for me. He also suggested follow-up MRIs in a year to see if the tonsil had fallen anymore.

I am slightly comfortable that both neurosurgeons that I have agreed that I'm not bad enough for surgery. I am, still a little concerned about how "borderline" or "not bad enough" my symptoms are because they feel a lot more than Borderline to me. I am going to see a new neurologist on Tuesday. I am going to be open to what she has to say and she if there is any thing we can do to make me feel better. I'm tired of feeling like crap. I plan on trying to give her 6 months to work with me and for me to see some sort of improvement. If not, I have not completely ruled out the surgery route.

On that note, I have heard people in my support group say that you can send your MRI films to the specialists at the Chiari Institute and that they would review your films (for free) and tell you if they can help you or if its even worth it before you spend the money and time to hop on Amtrak and spend 49 hours traveling to Great Neck, New York for a consultation.

***OFF THE AIR, TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR ANOTHER EPISODE OF***
AS THE TONSIL FALLS

STARING:

#1.22 Labor Day Weekend Trip to Houston cancelled due to the gas prices, gas shortage & nin-com-poops who have invaded Houston and causing problems, instead of respecting the sacrifice the town is making to help them.
#1 Tuesday, Sept 6 at 8:30 Neurologist #1 My New Drug Dealer.
#0 Sending MRI Films to The Chiari Institute for a third opinion by Chiari Specialist.

**EDITED TO ADD***

I don't know exactly how Blogger managed to do this, but it just replaced Episode # 6 with Episode #7 and deleted the old one. Ugh. Now I gotta see if I can remember the stoke of genius that I posted back on August 27th.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at September 2, 2005 10:29 AM

Comments

Posted by: SillyNessa at August 29, 2005 11:31 AM

Posted by: Jeff Vachon at September 2, 2005 11:53 AM