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Oh, he's good. We walked into his office and there on his wall, next to all his medical degrees, is this poster in a frame...
So, he has a sense of humour and a sense of history. I like the man already. He comes in and we talk about the poster and he starts telling us all the ingredients in the original mixture! So, he's a nicely curious guy, too. Excellent!
It would appear that I'm suffering from a Labyrinthine Disorder caused by a Basilar Migraine. Remember that migraine I had back on the first of April last year? The one that lasted two weeks? Yep, that was the cause of all this. Effectively it gave me a mini-stroke near my brain-stem. As we went through all the various issues I'd been having, balance, no concentration, exhaustion, pains in my legs, slow deterioration, issues with words and spelling, weakness, every symptom we could come up with just confirmed his hypothesis more. It's still not 100% certain, and it's something that is very hard to confirm without tests that can leave you permanently worse off than when you went in, but it seems a pretty solid bet.
Apparently I was lucky. People can go to sleep with these migraines and wake up paralysed down one side of their body! It's nothing to do with family history, diet or anything else, only migraines. And since I didn't get migraines until after I'd caught Leptospirosis from the cattle, there's no issues of genetically passing on the dangers of stroke to the dozen or so children I hope to father.
However, I do have to be super-diligent about migraines in future. If I get one it has to be acted on immediately. If I've had medication and not gotten over it within 24 hours, I have to go to hospital. If I don't, I'm risking an actual full-blown stroke. But given I get migraines maybe once every year or so, I don't have much to worry about.
And my jogging/walking regime was the best thing I could have done. The fact that I want to learn to swim as well works in with that. Exercise and changing of body position are ideal, so there's lots of sex on the cards, too. *wicked grin* These things will help retrain my body and my balance. With regards to all the issues it's not implausible that I could, over time, make a 100% recovery. I may not. There is certainly damage, how permanent it is can only be found out over time.
But it ain't gunna kill me unless I risk ignoring a migraine, it ain't gunna get worse unless I let it by not exercising, and I have a chance at getting back to my old self, though it may take years.
So please spread the word to all interested parties. My world totally rocks!
How's yours?
So, he has a sense of humour and a sense of history. I like the man already. He comes in and we talk about the poster and he starts telling us all the ingredients in the original mixture! So, he's a nicely curious guy, too. Excellent!
It would appear that I'm suffering from a Labyrinthine Disorder caused by a Basilar Migraine. Remember that migraine I had back on the first of April last year? The one that lasted two weeks? Yep, that was the cause of all this. Effectively it gave me a mini-stroke near my brain-stem. As we went through all the various issues I'd been having, balance, no concentration, exhaustion, pains in my legs, slow deterioration, issues with words and spelling, weakness, every symptom we could come up with just confirmed his hypothesis more. It's still not 100% certain, and it's something that is very hard to confirm without tests that can leave you permanently worse off than when you went in, but it seems a pretty solid bet.
Apparently I was lucky. People can go to sleep with these migraines and wake up paralysed down one side of their body! It's nothing to do with family history, diet or anything else, only migraines. And since I didn't get migraines until after I'd caught Leptospirosis from the cattle, there's no issues of genetically passing on the dangers of stroke to the dozen or so children I hope to father.
However, I do have to be super-diligent about migraines in future. If I get one it has to be acted on immediately. If I've had medication and not gotten over it within 24 hours, I have to go to hospital. If I don't, I'm risking an actual full-blown stroke. But given I get migraines maybe once every year or so, I don't have much to worry about.
And my jogging/walking regime was the best thing I could have done. The fact that I want to learn to swim as well works in with that. Exercise and changing of body position are ideal, so there's lots of sex on the cards, too. *wicked grin* These things will help retrain my body and my balance. With regards to all the issues it's not implausible that I could, over time, make a 100% recovery. I may not. There is certainly damage, how permanent it is can only be found out over time.
But it ain't gunna kill me unless I risk ignoring a migraine, it ain't gunna get worse unless I let it by not exercising, and I have a chance at getting back to my old self, though it may take years.
So please spread the word to all interested parties. My world totally rocks!
How's yours?
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I'm so glad to hear it! (:
*does a little happy dance for you*
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So pleased!
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I'm surprised and impressed that he came up with the solution after one consultation! :)
A line for you "Hi, Im Danny Oz, and I need to have sex with you to get better!" :)
please dont use that line on me!
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"Hi I need help with my medicine. Could you help? Right, thanks a lot for this. Only I must warn you, I'll need to change position several times as part of the treatment. What say we start with Reverse Cowgirl, move onto T-Square and then finish with the Curving Knot?"
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I guess, *if* you make a full recovery you're not gonna need that wheelchair after all. I was convinced the wheelchair would make you a chick-magnet. And there was always that Davros masquerade costume (or maybe Ironside)
And did I read correctly that you don't swim?
Ecstatic to hear the good news!
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Never learned to swim. Dad tried to teach me by throwing me in the water. I sank.
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Sounds like a brilliant doctor too.
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And to be quite honest, I've never heard of Labyrinthine Disorder. Both Drhoz and I get mirgraines, so it's something to keep an eye out for.
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I took an instant liking to my doctor in Sydney. A Japanese guy with looooong hair. I walked into his office and there he was in camo pants with manga duck pictures (his first name was Donald) on the wall. And I said to myself, Oh we're gonna get along just fine :) and we did.
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Keep up the exercise :)
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And such a hopeful, positive answer, too.
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*great big hugs*
And not such a bad one, as the options went, either. Huzzah for exercise! (And sex!)
On that, did he say anything about whether a formal rehabilitation program would be likely to help you improve faster or more? In Victoria there would be the possibility of getting a referral to a Community Rehabilitation Centre, or something like it, on the public system - they do a lot of work with people who've had strokes, frex.
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I read your reply and it initially looked like you were asking if he'd suggested a formal rehabilitation for the sex!
I thought "Who has she been talking to?!"
At the moment it's see how I go without formal treatment, since my exercise has already made a noticeable improvement.
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Althought I still like my theory of the parasite in the brain :)
Sounds like an amazing doctor.
Migraines aren't usually taken all that seriously. I had a low-level one for about 2 weeks straight once, and my GP wasn't at all concerned.
If you do need to go hospital, maybe you should carry a letter from the doctor in your wallet in case ER docs don't do the right thing and you're not in the right state to explain how urgent it is to them. Easy to get fobbed off with a migraine when they're dealing with people who are bleeding and don't know your history.
Very happy for you :)
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I was figuring I'd need to carry something with me. If I go into hospital, I'll be there for a full day getting treatments.
My migraine was very painful to start, but no other symptoms, and then it dropped to constant background pain. But that was around two weeks. Scary stuff.
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Thats such good news to hear. So we'll be seeing your scrawny ass at Swancons for years to come, by the sounds of it.
Best news all damn week, m'boy!
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*relieved look*
A bajillion hugs!! I am so happy for you.
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And the non-swimming thing I seem to recall from the pool parties at my place in the 1980's... though I do recall you didn't mind the spa!
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I love the idea of having a swimming pool, but I know it'd never get looked after, so wouldn't have one unless I was rich enough to be able to afford someone to look after it for me.
But yes, must learn to swim. My main motivation is that if Shaz and I are successful in breeding, I want to be able to swim well enough to reach a child in trouble. The bonus to that is that now it also becomes part of my getting my body working right again thing.
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*lots and lots of love*
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Between the Melbourne trips and the relief at having an answer at last, I'm like a limp noodle. All those wishing to come over and give me hours of cuddling and massage - go for it. I will probably melt into a teary puddle of relaxation and relief.
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i have that poster - i left in melbourne i think.
love! and happy dancing!
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A condition where the sufferer thinks that he looks like the mid-1980's David Bowie in deliciously tight trousers, whereas in reality he looks more like an anthropomorphised ferret on a bad hair day.
Come my love, let us go strut our funky dance magic in the Escher room!
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If you're going to have a mysterious illness its good to know *which* mysterious illness.
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