Today concluded a whirlwind tour of medical visits – specifically I have been to and through 11 appointments in the last 11 days! I have done everything from weekly scheduled therapy visits to meeting a new Primary Care doctor to performing tests to measure brain responses to visual stimuli. The medical tour concluded today with [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Appointments aplenty!
Posted in Health & Rehab, tagged brain, brain tumor, craniotomy, ependymoma, hospital, nerve regeneration, tumor on June 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Alma mater to the rescue?
Posted in Health & Rehab, Newsworthy Notes, tagged brain, brain tumor, craniotomy, ependymoma, hospital, nerve regeneration, tumor on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Little did I know that my alma mater would be churning out such relevant work to my rehabilitation! Check out the following story that is posted on UT-Austin’s website (here):
Talking the talk
Posted in Health & Rehab, tagged brain, brain tumor, craniotomy, ependymoma, hospital, tumor on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As most of y’all are aware, I am back enrolled at speech therapy since having vocal chord surgery. Under the ever-watchful eye of Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Texas, I am back at my original rehab hospital and have been allowed to return to my primary speech therapist from last year.
The major advantage (other than her [...]
Pointless Prediction
Posted in Professional Sports, tagged Boston Celtics, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you are paying close attention, then you noticed that I predicted that the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons would win their respective conference finals. If you are still paying close attention, you know that the NBA Finals begin tonight. Guess which two teams are playing each other….
The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston [...]
Grassroots Results
Posted in Newsworthy Notes, tagged brain, brain tumor, brain tumor awareness week, craniotomy, ependymoma, hospital, tumor on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, I posed “A Call to Action“. In the article, readers were asked to contact their US Representatives and ask them to support a bill that proposed to designate May as “National Brain Tumor Awareness Month”. Guess what? IT WORKED!
