Speech Pathologist

So I am seeing a Speech Pathologist/Memory person for my TBI stuff and she says that I have "executive memory function" issues and gives me assignments.

I now get to write To-Do list.
And I have a day planner.
I schedule daily cleaning.
But I'm doing better on writing stuff down!
She's super nice, I  love her.

Neurologist Appointment

Had my neurologist appointment today. Let me just say, I did NOT expect it to be a 2.5 hour appointment. I have an EEG that's going to be scheduled, an MRI, they referred me to the TBI clinic, they gave me medication for my headaches that is also an anti-seizure medication, so hopefully that will help some.

No diagnosis of course, but they're leaning heavily towards Atonic Seizures and MS. I had a seizure yesterday, luckily I didn't scare Katie.
Atonic Seizures | epilepsy.com
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Multiple+sclerosis

At they're getting closer to figuring something out.

This isn't the first doctor to say MS.

Allergic to the pain meds!

Yeah, so, the main reason I've been so miserable: I'm ALLERGIC to the pain meds they gave me. I can't even begin to tell you how much better I am feeling already.

I also have a UTI (ugh) and some fluid build-up in my abdomen, but it isn't infected yet! So if I take care of my incisions I should be ok. They gave me some cirpo to take for a while to get rid of that.

I am able to move so much better already. I can't believe I didn't realize that it was one of my drugs that was making me feel like crap.

Gallbladder Surgery

I'll condense everything to one post-

04-25-2010


So I've had a fever since after I got home. It's been hovering right around 99.5 the past couple hours, which is up .5 from when I woke up. They said if it goes over 100.5 I probably need to go in again.
04-27-2010

Waiting SUCKS
But I got to eat REAL food today, and I have my blanket and pillow, so it isn't so bad.

I hate hate hate sleeping on my back. My shoulder is killing me because of it, and my back is miserable. They've upped my pain meds because of it. Sad thing is that I don't even feel it anymore (the drugs), I feel normal :/ (other than the pain)

MRI to check my bile ducts, and surgery based partially around that. I have a 3cm gall stone that's obstructing junk. Something about some sort of infection, something about low levels of potassium and high liver enzymes, blah blah blah.

So I'm sure surgery will come in early and wake me up to tell me what's going on. Since my test was done so late there's no idea when anything is happening, but there's a pretty high chance that I will be going in to surgery TOMORROW (today for anyone outside of PT)

04-28-2010
My surgery is tomorrow morning around 7:20. They said I'm the first case, so the chances of getting bumped are pretty low. They're going to go in Laproscopically first and convert to open if they have to.

Going in to surgery

8+ hours in the ER

I've been home around 7 hours now.

I was in some of the worst pain I'd ever felt last night, and just couldn't sleep for the life of me. Kept vomiting & vomiting, so DB finally demanded that I let him take me to the hospital.

Tons of tests later, they ran a CT scan, which didn't really show much. Then a dr came in right before they were going to discharge me with bad heartburn, and felt my stomach- and sent me off to get an ultrasound. I have huge gallstones, and they're probably going to take my gallbladder out.

The one good thing about this is they approved me for charity through the hospital, so if I do have to have the procedure it will be covered.

I've been sleeping for pretty much the last 18 hours.