Blue One
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- Mar 19, 2008
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- Age
- 70
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- Canada (Edmonton Alberta) - Texas
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2013 was an awful year for me. In July I had a first ever kidney stone attack and had to have the stone blasted out with a laser during a uroscopy.
After that things were looking up when I had my bad left hip injected in September with a product called Durolane, a concentrated hyaluronic acid which is intended to lubricate and extend the life of the joint.
So far it is working great.
After that things went rather quickly downhill. I was working in my garage in early October and experienced a bad headache. I thought I should head into the house, and had supper and a shower and felt a little better.
The headache stayed with me through the week until Wednesday when I stumbled slightly walking out to the truck to head to work. Went to work as usual that day.
Thursday morning I was unable to stand up well when getting out of bed. Managed to call work and say I would not be in. After that the nausea and vomiting started and my wife helped me get dressed and head for the hospital.
After every test known to man, they had ideas, but were still not sure what was happening. I spent 6 days in hospital during which time I was stabilized and transferred to the University of Alberta hospital, to the neurosurgery ward.
Following more tests I was scheduled for surgery and sent home for a week.
During this time they still did not have a definitive diagnosis. There was scary talk of things like brain tumors etc.
After a couple of days I received a phone call on a Friday evening from my neurosurgeon. They had sent my scans out all over and a diagnosis had come from the surgeon who trained my surgeon out in Montreal.
He knew what it was and that it had to be fixed right away, surgery could not wait. An OR was prepared and early in the AM on Saturday October 19th I went under the knife.
Turns out that what I had was a leaking blood vessel that was leaking blood and building up pressure in my brain. A Fistula is what it's called a bad connection between an artery and a vein that should not be there.
I had the surgery and then came the recovery. Once treated these things don't come back, thank God for that. They also do not really know why they are there, mine apparently had been there for a long time before showing itself.
Just Had my 6 month MRI and visit with the neurosurgeon and was told that all is well and that I do not have to come back.
I will still experience small headaches possibly for another year but they too will eventually fade.
Here's to a great 2014 and I'm hoping to put a few miles on the fast blue beast for the first time in almost 3 years.
Thanks to my great Texas sweetheart wife Jan who was with me all through this and with her faith we were carried through.
I now have a rather impressive scar behind my left ear.
Larry
After that things were looking up when I had my bad left hip injected in September with a product called Durolane, a concentrated hyaluronic acid which is intended to lubricate and extend the life of the joint.
So far it is working great.
After that things went rather quickly downhill. I was working in my garage in early October and experienced a bad headache. I thought I should head into the house, and had supper and a shower and felt a little better.
The headache stayed with me through the week until Wednesday when I stumbled slightly walking out to the truck to head to work. Went to work as usual that day.
Thursday morning I was unable to stand up well when getting out of bed. Managed to call work and say I would not be in. After that the nausea and vomiting started and my wife helped me get dressed and head for the hospital.
After every test known to man, they had ideas, but were still not sure what was happening. I spent 6 days in hospital during which time I was stabilized and transferred to the University of Alberta hospital, to the neurosurgery ward.
Following more tests I was scheduled for surgery and sent home for a week.
During this time they still did not have a definitive diagnosis. There was scary talk of things like brain tumors etc.
After a couple of days I received a phone call on a Friday evening from my neurosurgeon. They had sent my scans out all over and a diagnosis had come from the surgeon who trained my surgeon out in Montreal.
He knew what it was and that it had to be fixed right away, surgery could not wait. An OR was prepared and early in the AM on Saturday October 19th I went under the knife.
Turns out that what I had was a leaking blood vessel that was leaking blood and building up pressure in my brain. A Fistula is what it's called a bad connection between an artery and a vein that should not be there.
I had the surgery and then came the recovery. Once treated these things don't come back, thank God for that. They also do not really know why they are there, mine apparently had been there for a long time before showing itself.
Just Had my 6 month MRI and visit with the neurosurgeon and was told that all is well and that I do not have to come back.
I will still experience small headaches possibly for another year but they too will eventually fade.
Here's to a great 2014 and I'm hoping to put a few miles on the fast blue beast for the first time in almost 3 years.
Thanks to my great Texas sweetheart wife Jan who was with me all through this and with her faith we were carried through.
I now have a rather impressive scar behind my left ear.
Larry
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