It’s been a hectic and harrowing week in the world of recovery from brain surgery! I went for my two-year, post-surgery MRI on Tuesday and then had an appointment with my neurologist on Friday to learn the results. As always, the majority is good news, but some things were also tough to hear. I will let you decide for yourself….
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Posted in Health & Rehab | Tagged brain, brain tumor, craniotomy, ependymoma, nerve regeneration, tumor | 5 Comments »
Financial experts say that the road to wealth is only found by folks that identify a need in an area of talent they possess. On Saturday night, I found my road.
Where? When?
While watching Miss America 2009 – where else?!?
Having a wife that was a former state titleholder and was active in more pageant systems that I knew existed means when televised pageants come on, things stop in my house. Not to worry though, I watched Longhorn basketball in real time, while Miss America was dvr’ed!
We settled in for the pageant with pen and paper in hand. Ready to critique and judge for ourselves the 52 talented women on stage. Little did I know that it would be less than 10 minutes into the telecast when I would identify my calling….
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A glutton is defined by Merriam-Webster as “one that has a great capacity for enduring something”. The site then continues by using it in the following example, “a glutton for punishment”.
The next entry says, see Matt Cotcher.
Okay, not really. But it could - no it should.
Why? Seeking further insight into the protracted recovery of function in my facial muscles, I went back for more electrotherapy this week!
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I know, I know…it’s been two months since I’ve posted an update. I could blather on about how busy things have been with my sister’s wedding, the ever-frantic holiday season, and a Texas-sized BCS mess, but I will save those tales for another time. I have not shared any therapy stories for too long, and the last sixty days have been filled with some good ones!
Between a month of ‘Advanced Physical Therapy’, a steady dose of speech therapy, a follow-up MRI and an appointment with my Neurologist, progress was the name of the game during the end of the year. A closer look at all of the above follows….
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It’s been five long weeks since I posted an article on the blog. That is terrible! I know your life is incomplete without my incoherent rambling. As Dr. Evil would say, “The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.”
Okay, you’re right…moving on….
These last five weeks have been beyond busy! I got sick. I got married. I left the country. Texas beat Oklahoma.
While y’all are busy discussing amongst yourselves which of the above is the most improbable, let’s take a look at each event individually…
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