Yesterday Brian and I travelled to Melbourne and back,
and I have decided ‘never again’ (in one day that is).
We headed to St Vincent’s hospital to see the neurosurgeon,
Tiew Han. This is the surgeon who operated on Brian’s neck 4 years ago, and
much to our surprise he looked at Brian and said ‘don’t I know you?’ He either
has a photographic memory, or Brian said
something funny as he was coming out of anaesthetic that has given them something
to laugh about ever since (thanks for that suggestion Jeanie).
After studying the scans, the neurosurgeon remained
undecided and has ordered an MRI which I am having in Warrnambool tomorrow. Because
my back pain is able to be managed at the moment, he is reluctant to do
anything unless the spinal cord is being compromised, and the CT scans weren’t
quite definitive enough. He’ll ring me when he gets the results of the MRI. All
in all it’s good to know that it doesn’t appear to be urgent. He suggested
getting the hip procedure done first to improve my quality of life. So we’ll
wait to hear.
Brian managed the driving well, and in fact has been
feeling quite good. We are cautiously optimistic that the bladder procedure he
had last week has been helpful.
Meanwhile I didn’t have the happiest of trips, starting
off with a headache which (with 9½ hours of driving for the day) progressed to
nausea. I will simply say that I am happy that someone invented ‘sick bags’
which I keep in the car, and I was extremely happy to arrive back home and
crawl straight into bed!
However it was lovely to say hello to brother Geoff
before we headed back home.
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