Wednesday week, we’ll be filming My Neck and Brain, with yours truly in the starring role, and the MRI technician directing.
For some time I’ve had a string of small neuro-things going on, from slight numbness on one side to loss of language fluency to myoclonic twitches and malfunctions. Before anyone asks, I don’t think I’m looking at anything pre-strokish; the one-sided numbness and weakness has been there on and off for years and years, and it commonly manifests as a stress response. Also, the neurologist I saw last month was talking more about other potential causes and not stroke, my BP is under control, and everybody seems to be happy with where my diabetes is right now. Still, I know that I have a herniated C5-6 disc, and have had since 1986. (I got the diagnosis in 1994, but with hindsight I can pinpoint the day it happened.) Nobody has seriously looked at it since diagnosis, and I think it’s time to get an update and see if it’s deteriorated any, and take a look at the inside of my skull as long as they have me strapped in.
The bill for the MRI is likely to hurt: $500 deductible, and 20% coinsurance for everything over that. Means I’m going to be scrambling for overtime hours whenever I can find ’em at the Empire.
The original fnord was built in the shell of a harbour mine.
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