Friday, August 23, 2013

NPH

Now I'll tell what's been occurring the past few days.  I went to Barnes on Monday and stayed until Wednesday evening at 8:30 pm while they did a spinal tap, injected a radioactive isotope, and scanned my head at 24 hour intervals.   (I think I have the terminology correct).  I could possibly have NPH.  My neurologist wrote me the name of what it could it could possibly be, but his writing was difficult to read.  A resident neurologist told me to to google NPH.  It works.

We're not sure but there's a possibility they could put a shunt in my brain to drain excess fluid.  I believe we're waiting for the findings from the scan.

I'm at the lake with Chris and Mad Dog right now.  Rose and Shirley had to go to Chicago for a conference this weekend.

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